Come Back Down The Road

Come Back Down The Road
© Surazeus
2018 04 20

Come back down the road with your broken heart.
Though you left our home twenty years ago
to find the promised land some day, somewhere
beyond the horizon where the sun shines,
you never wrote me letters how you are.

Come back down the road with your broken heart.
I think about you every day out there,
still following your star of destiny,
working in some factory making cars,
and sitting at home with your family.

Come back down the road with your broken heart.
The signs to heaven are all turned backward
so maybe you got lost in paradise
and wander in the labyrinth of hopes
still searching somewhere for the promised land.

Come back down the road with your broken heart.
The sun that glows on the grass of our home
reveals why we must wander down the road,
but come back home to our warm Georgia hills
where we will sing again in shady groves.

Come back down the road with your broken heart.
The sparrows singing in the almond trees
discuss the secrets of the turning world,
but I forgot the features of your face
and your name disappears in evening breeze.

Come back down the road with your broken heart.
I sit on the porch of our empty home
and sing about how we played hide and seek
but the signs back home are all turned backward
and you must sleep in your grave by the road.