Dusting Off My Guitar
(4-16-99)
by David B. Rhaesa
 
Woke up couldn't sleep
got out my guitar
played
Kathy's Song
from memories
dating back
decades
then
Slip Slidin Away
that I'd somehow
remembered
when Deb gave me
this guitar last fall
and during it
tears just sort
of started
streaming
from nowhere
Put down
the guitar
put on
John Lennon
whatever
gets me through
this night
wish I had
a good version
of
Help Me Make
It through the Night
maybe I can
find that one
in the cobwebs
of memory
from when I used
to play it.
I doubt it.
It seems like another lifetime ago.