On the Road Again Well I'm so tired of cryin' But I'm out on the road again. Well, I'm so tired of cryin', But, I'm on the road again. Cause I ain't got, no woman, Just, to call my, special friend. You know the first time I ventured, Out in all the driving, rain and snow, You know the first time I stumbled out into the cold! I didn't have no fairo, not even no place to go. And, my father abandoned me when I was young, And my dear mommy dearest abandoned me as well, Mama she wailed, Lord have mercy on my wicked son! Take a hint from me mama, please don't you cry no more. Sure enough one of these mornings down the road I'm gone. But I ain't going down that long lonesome highway by myself, Webee too tired to work, and if you can’t walk the road with me, If’n I can’t carry you baby, I’s gonna have to carry somebody else! (Willie Nelson, Canned Heat)
This is obviously not the famous Willie Nelson, but one that Canned Heat made famous for Willie, and I altered it somewhat. The poem expresses "neediness" and the root arguments can we make for justifying our neediness. Symbolically, women are receptive and giving, and the poem illustrates how our own common symbols and whatnot can become counterproductive. As Lao Tzu said, "Habits are the end of all honesty and compassion, the beginning of wisdom". Whether we take the long way home or the short path to heaven is up to us, but certainly life plays its part in helping us to make such decisions. This poem is also a way to further introduce Moses, aka Jim from Huckleberry Finn, who travels with Golilocks Murphy and Mark Twain perhaps. I really don't know exactly where all these poems are leading until I get there and, of course, anyone can improve on anything I write. The somewhat unique thing about my poems is that they can often express sorrow and anger as fitting right in with the theme. Whether you want to view the narrator as good or bad, is left as open as possible, but the message gets across that he certainly has history and issues, much as Jim suffered from slavery and suddenly found himself a fish out of water.
