Member Poem

In the Bible I have pressed
a photograph of her
and on its back the words she wrote
said she'd always remember me

on a Greyhound bus I rode
down roads that endless seemed
through a countryside that never changed
and every small town there could be

every town had a school
or it had a church
where we would stop for the night
and another show to do

endless crowds of people full
the halls were always full
for there was nothing else to do
on a Midwest small-town night

on the stage I would sing
song so carefully learned
trying hard passion to show
so my words weren't empty things

after the show the people would
always want to meet me
tell me how much they enjoyed the show
and how they'd remember me

and in a town there was a girl
who in the crowd I did see
and her eyes did see me
and I knew together we be

we did meet and we did talk
and went out together to eat
a small town diner where we ate
I don't remember what

and that night I went to her house
and the night there did spend
and in the morning she did give
her photograph to me

and the bus it did wait
my bags to be loaded in
and to say goodbye to her
and onto the bus climb

out the window I saw her wave
as the bus pulled away
and we drove down the road
and I left her behind

so many years has it been
so many shows I've done
so many people have I met
and too many have left behind

looking at her photograph
and wondering if still she
does remember that we met
and once together were