Middle Country Blues (Sad Song)

Oh, how I wish you could see me

for who I have been

Once at the top of my game

Young, happy and with friends

But today, I am hungry

Packing my things to move back in

the room with the mattress

at the bottom I confess

job is not here yet and I can't

pretend

No matter how much I love you

I can't afford a place to rest just yet

All I have is my body and soul

My love of nature and the open road

Take me with you, beautiful song

Along life's trials, right or wrong

Rhymes, photos, tea and sobriety

Gifts I am left with in the Middle Country

Selling my horse today and downgrading to a donkey 

Leaving the quiet house

to return to guest humility 

I am but a missionary

A traveler between homes

Spreading the word of

Inequality

Mothers often end up alone

When cruel men refuse to share

When women are not retrained

It is brutally unfair

Teacher, writer, stranger

Is this where I belong?

I don't know the answers

I only know the songs

Part of a Creative Writing Project: Letters to Geographer 2015-2016