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www.voicesabookofhope.com

Vicious Circle

by Jim Stewart © 1976

 

It seems like the Captain don't want to go home,

It's his last trip down the river,

There won't be no more.

Yet he waves at the people

Whose faces that he knows,

And thinks of those places where he used to go.

 

Sail down the muddy waters,

Sail down your memories,

There is no place like the present

That I’d rather be.

 

Now a young man takes his hand of sailing the ship

Down the mighty, muddy waters

Of the great Mississippi,

And he waves at the people

Whose faces he doesn't know,

And dreams of those places where he soon will go.

 

Now the vicious circle never ceases to end

For it's out with the old

As the new comes in,

And we wave at the people

Whose faces that we know,

And we dream of the places where we'd like to go.

 

Sail down the muddy waters,

Sail down your memories,

There's no place like the present

That I'd rather be.


 

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Jim Stewart is a poet, songwriter, and Ambassador of Poetry in San Antonio. He hosts poetry readings Wednesday evenings at Café Latino on N. St. Mary’s St. More of Stewart’s poems, reviews, and excerpts from his book The Voices Within Us, can be found at www.authorsden.com/jamesdstewart and on www.Poetry.com.


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