Tumbleweed ("Keep The Change")

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. - Thoreau

no reason to confess, no need to concede

rockin' out to a different creed

knowing that faith doesn't bleed

we had all that we could ever need

in our plaid coats of tweed

as the wind blew the memory of yesterday away in an arid, brittle tumbleweed

actions and truth long since estranged, possibly deranged

in a fair and precious but misunderstood exchange

people thought it strange

as we went riding unbridled out on the range

our spirits groovin' and horses clip clopping to the music of la grange

reminding today to, "keep the change"

Author's Note

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” - Thoreau

Reviews

[Betty Hermelee]

You speak of the "wild west" of wherever you live; to be free from almost everything, including faith, memories, things of the past,; we don't need much to explore and be wild; it comes very naturally; nature waits for us whenever we want a part of it......
very interesting
Best, B

[Pete]

thank you for sharing thoughts betty. you possess keen insight. i couldn't have explained it any better. only be traveling off the beaten path do we discover what we did not know. nature is full of wonder ... :)

[Pete]

we must dare ... :)

[Betty Hermelee]

Yes Indeed!
Warmly, B