Like Cowboys In The Movies Poem by M.W. Ketchel

In an old forgotten suitcase, I stumbled on your picture.
And seeing you made me wish for yesterdays,
For we once rode together,
Like cowboy in the movies,
And we always knew we'd weather
The stormy times the world might bring our way.

On cool Texas mornings, we'd saddle up and ride.
Sheriff and his deputy, 'gainst the bad guys, side by side.
We'd ride our wooden ponies
like cowboys in the movies,
As close as two friends would ever be.
It seems like only yesterday to me.

And when our country called us, to a war we didn't choose,
We rode on steel winged ponies,
And vowed we'd never lose.
Like cowboys in the movies,
We'd stand and fight till the job was done,
And then we'd just ride off, into the setting sun.

On a long, hot summer night, they took us by surprise
And hell rained down upon us
Till one by one we died.
Like cowboys in the movies
We held on to defend, then held onto each other, and prayed for it to end.

Where we once rode together, I laid you down to rest
And cursed that damned war for taking so many of our best.
We thought we'd live forever,
Like cowboys in the movies.
We'd never really die.
Instead, we'd gently fade away into the Western sky.

In an old forgotten suitcase,
I stumbled on your picture...