Happy Trails

Here’s a poem which appears in my book Pick it up and Read:

 

Sonnet on a Line from Frost

 

There is a singer everyone has heard

who lived the fifties in the USA

and everyone whose hair is not yet gray

can sing his theme song like a mournful bird

Whenever someone disappears from view

to take a new job, move to a new home,

to bid farewell to a familiar realm,

someone will warble “Happy Trails to You”.

The drunken singer waving from the bar

remembers Roy and Dale who wave goodbye

The friends who watch the packed, departing car

are humming out their wishes with a sigh..

Even the final journey into death

will find the tune there on the skipping breath.