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Tennessee (Free verse) by wilco
It's lonely in this place.
Too hot one day,
too cold the next...
It's like the seasons
can never
make up their minds
There's never any light here.
Like reading a good story,
but an uninteresting ending...
Elvis never saw it
but sang
ballads to its beauty.
There's pieces of April here.
She never believed,
but gave it all she had...
I pretended that I cared
but languished
in colored bits of cloth.
So tired of the music.
I can't turn it off,
but listen as it grows tepid...
People turn their heads
but always
pass without regard.
Gazing into the mountains.
There's no gold left,
to search for in these hills...
So much was forged here
but forgotten
like the ending of a dream.
Many odes have been sung to her.
Faded into obscurity,
and left to breathe their last...
Twisted into rhyme
and favored,
but with nothing gained or lost.
The heroes of old have gone.
They've left nothing,
but legends in their wake...
To give back a dream
and forget
that nothing can last forever.
The whiskey is growing bitter.
It's faded so quickly,
that soon no one will remember...
To begin again is easy.
But leaving?
That is the hardest part for all of us.
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