A Piece of the American Pie

It was the summer of 65

We shagged the Drag

In your parent’s Impala
Drank cold root beer in frosty mugs 
Chasing each other up and down
Main Street USA
Searching for our piece
Of by, by Miss

American Pie
We drove your dad’s
Truck to the river

But he river was flooded
Chanting our anthems
Unchained Melody
I Can’t Help Myself
I Got You Babe
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
The beat went on
And on and on…
Like Seger said
A few years later
We were workin’
On our night moves
In that sweet
Sweet summer time
As the autumn was
Closin’ in
And we waited on
The thunder
Just tryin' to find
Love
Before we embarked 
Into adulthood

Star Crossed Love

A half century ago

Star crossed lovers

Came together in cornfields

And on back roads

In small town America

Our love a rampage of desire

Too strong to be held

Too fragile to last beyond the summer’s rain

Too young and yet too old

A lover’s paradox

Dark moon filled nights

Across a field of green prairie grass

And ripening stalks of yellow corn

The summer’s rain has long ago passed

The words spoken aloud across the sea

Of corn stalks and tall grass

Now lie silent against the north wind

Fertile fields no more

I call your name aloud

Across a sea of time

I whisper it to a moonlit night

Young no more

My love can be contained

It will last far beyond the summer’s rain