Until There Are None

It's about change

Until  There Are None

In Vegas there used to be…

Seagulls on light poles

Lizards on walls

Roadrunners in backyards

And now there’s none at all

Wild horses and wild mules

Are vanishing fast

Conservation and good intentions

Make sure they won’t last

Used to be tumbleweed 

Blowing into town

Now too many houses

No tumbleweeds to be found

Smog has dimmed

Our once bright sunny days

Now our skies are limned

In L.A Haze

It’s the nature of things

To ne’er remain the same

But that good things should vanish

Is a crying shame

Nothing’s meant to last forever

Not even our torrid Vegas sun

My heart will repeat only 

so many more Beats 

…And then there will be none…

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