POETRY: This Road I Love You!
In us is the same stone, iron and ire of the Cascades covered in evergreen emeralds And is the same steel and resolve in the bridges that cross the Cedar and Colombia Rivers Faced blades on the crazy streets made of concrete roses ephemeral Those pedals kept us full until the Pacific coast shivers Say cheese, smile at what only God could create 101 winding roads carved high into cliffs over expansive shores No man or beaver could damn God's unrelenting waters Over bays and underpasses, through small towns where Old Glory roars We admired, again, what was forged by our forefathers We run from our duty for our fate Timidly, my fearful temperament fights against the edges of ruin No guide around the sand dunes makes us long for a desert unforeseen Our thirst for adventure indelibly quenched, we were drew in The redwoods braved the same rain and the same years we ween Golden lands tell us, salvation is closer today The redwoods passed so did time we barely afforded The roses of ...
