Southern Dreams

Their childhoods' full of mild dreams

honeysuckle treats and magnolia trees

humid drifts and humming marshes

sudden storms and frequent y'all's

open smiles and kudzu covered white oaks

seeped in traditon and saturated in faith

southern seeds sowed deep as red clay

momma close by and daddy ready to wrestle

a feral existence tamed

by domesticated simplicities

my children rest in the southern land.