Words of Acadiana

I miss the big open sky, an ocean above the arid desert  Turbulent turquoise blue shredded cotton ball clouds  Tumbleweed Windswept  Dust devils  Swirling, disturbing the desert sand  Pale, bleached landscape  Tan. Amber. Burnt orange. Brown. Black. White Explosive sunsets igniting with orange and  Cooling to lavender  Renewing sunrises bathed in golden light  There’s something hypnotic about the desert  The profile of immense mountains in the foreground  sleeping giants, undisturbed  Time is just a concept  The only reality here is the weather  It’s miraculous  Drought. Flash floods. Hail. Snow.  Relentless forces  Punishing all in their wake  Yet the land takes it all in grace  There are lessons here  Ancient tales  You just have to listen  They’re carried in the wind  Buried in the sand  They fly above with hawks  And slither below with sidewinders  They bring you back to where you need to be  Restore your faith  For me

Never wanted you to leave  But glad that you’re gone  It led to this song  About heartaches  And earthquakes  Tectonic plates  Shattered my heart  Yet catapulted me to new heights  Strange new land  Foreign to me  At first it felt barren  Isolated  Alone  That was when I danced    in shadows  Next came the afterglow  A new life  An expanded version of myself  The land adopted a new look  Ever evolving with my mood  Now it feels full  Accessible  Inhabited  It became my new home  I dance in the sunlight now  Stealing moments to find who I really am  My legs are stronger having carried me through My heart, more open despite being shut down My spirit is free to roam  You see I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name  It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain The sunrises, they’re mine  I relish in the sunsets  What we h

I’ve got my matches in hand  Ready to strike  I’m the only architect of my fate And I know I have to burn it all down  To rise from the ashes  New  Changed  Different  The call of the Wild West beckons to me  Its dusty spirit haunts my dreams  I have a cowboy soul  I’ve always known  I ride through this life lonely  Lonesome  For a place I’ve never known  But I found it in the golden light  It bathed me  Transcendental  Illuminating my path  Becoming clear that this place is my home  I belong  Belong to the west  To the desert  The winds  The bleached landscape  We are one  The air fills my lungs  Its morning light rejuvenates my tired soul  I’ve ached and I’ve longed  To go where I belong  Trying foolishly my whole life to fit in  But I need to stand out  I need to be alone  To have conversations with the buffalo and the    dirt and the sun  The Light of the Creator shines there  The realm between heaven and earth