DEWEY DIRKS

Dewey Dirks

ONCE CLIMBED

If ever you have been

To the desolate streets of crazy town

Or if your mate in life

Has ever passed through there

If you've ever known

The long and dark storms of shell shock

Or fought off a massive

Dirty, white crack gorilla on your back

If you've lost your soul mate

Or a tender, sweet child

To the moving sands of time

You have been through

Some of the worst storms

That wander the Earth Mother

And if you look at where

There are the deepest scars

You'll see that out of them

A light softly now shines

There you'll find as much strength

As you'll ever be needing

My friend, you've been to where

The shit is piled up in drifts

Thirty feet high

Rest easy at most everything else

Life sends your way

They are but rolling hills

Compared to the ragged

And lonely, gray peaks

You've had the occasion

To once have climbed

Dewey Dirks copyright 2015

08/29/15