Cowboy Senses
 
What is it that you see when you look off to the West?
Is it vegetable, animal or mineral that to you is the best?
Is it past, present or future that keeps your interest?
What is it that you see when you look off to the West?
 
What is it that you feel when you look off to the West?
Is it desert, plain or valley that gives your heart a rest?
Or the trail you ride to camp up on the mountain crest?
What is it that you feel when you look off to the West?
 
What is it that you taste when you look off to the West?
Is it victory or defeat with your daily cowboy test?
Or just a cup of coffee that helps the day digest?
What is it that you taste when you look off to the West?
 
What is it that you smell when you look off to the West?
Is it a herd of cattle bawling like birds up in a nest?
Or fresh rain from a storm that dry land did not protest?
What is it that you smell when you look off to the West?
 
What is it that you hear when you look off to the West?
Is it the sound of friends around a campfire as they jest?
Or the silence of a place where you feel you are a guest?
What is it that you hear when you look off to the West?
 
Cowboy senses link us when we look off to the West.
©Steve Dirksen