Saturday, April 29, 2017

Mt. Zion Memorial musings

No Headstone to Remember Me 
inspired by the life and music of 
bluesman Belton Sutherland

Got no place to call my own
An unmarked grave my eternal home
My farewell bouquet a spray of unkempt weeds
And no headstone to remember me 

 'I Got Trouble' told the story of where I'd been 
and what I'd seen in my hardscrabble life
Yet it couldn't tell you all the stuff held in - 
the hopes and dreams that never saw light

But on those hot and sweltry Delta summer nights
you could pull up a porch chair. shut your eyes, listen close
You'd hear us sing the blues, so real, so right
from hearts that had loved and lost more than most
And now I've....

Got no place to call my own
An unmarked grave my eternal home
My farewell bouquet a spray of unkempt weeds
And no headstone to remember me 

bjw
april 2017