How do you describe a dream?
For my mother it is her salvation.
For me it is my place of solitude.
It's name is Clayleen,
after both her mom and her dad
but we just call it "The Hill"
It's not much to look at,
a tiny barn on a hill.
It has a great big porch
that wraps around it on three sides.
Our family goes there for pic-nics and such,
The boys being boys, go there just to get drunk.
On most Saturdays and Sundays it an old fashion front porch,
with friends and neighbors dropping by for a friendly chat.
But for me it's always been different,
I go there at night,
that's where I ponder on life's little jokes.
Across the valley are Mountains
so majestic they put a lump in your throat,
when the light is just right
you can see every detail, peaks, ridges,
that goes on forever to everyones delite.
When The Hill first came into the family,
it healed my mothers heart,
for she'd just lost her father unexpectedly
and all of her siblings tore each other apart
she was grieving for her mountains,
that had been taken away, but as they say
Clayleen saved the day.
You can set on the porch very quietly at night
and watch the dear and coyote come out into sight
For Mama there is no greater thrill.
Which brings me back to me, I'm not so thrilled about coyote
I've fallen asleep on that porch all by myself
and woke up in the middle of the night, I coulda got took.
New Year's Eve. The Forth of July, Halloween, or any ole time
just drive on by Mt Carmel Hlll, and stop and say hi.
There's usually a bag of fireworks hidden away,
We'll give you a welcome, that you'll go home and say,
That Clayleen family sure are nice folk,
there's every kind of character there
that you could float in a boat.
Well that's my story and I'm stickin to it,
there's only one thing I forgot, or just ain't got to it.
The butterfly's are humungas with two foot wing spans,
We feed them pork liver, to get them so big.
some day we will train them to pick up and deliver
the horse shoes that role down the hill
wouldn't that be clever.
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