“Querida! Te Quero….”
The words hung suspended,
Receding through time
To what she encountered instead.
She journeyed forth to America
With a posse of a couple of men,
A safe haven from the elements.
To explore her independence,
Know her mind, Free her heart,
Experience the trials that will alter her throughout.
Sheltered to the day,
Her maman further dismayed
When in a dispatch her father propelled,
To claim a land that’s Free
So she could be all that she wanted to be.
She traversed the great expanse,
Her maman vexed her, taking each chance
Prompting her of dangers in every circumstance.
Of Indian raids, of floods on the plains,
Of men with loose morals,
Of bitter winters and scorching heat.
Strong willed and pretty,
Violet eyes and sunset curly.
A women to turn men - unsteady into ready.
A soldier towering and primed,
Long dark hair and vaquero eyes
Tilted up in amusement besides.
Their heated words and maddening postures,
Hid secret looks, and grandiose obstacles.
He seduced her innocence liberating her feelings,
As the wild open land just beneath their feet.
She braved many outlaws, A raid - an almost rape
A flood, a politician, a sister she never knew – hated.
They snatched her - then spooked her
To rest her treasured land away from her
Irrefutable – her father had left it Before he expired.
To her rescue he came
A painted hombrero with a pinto complete.
Guns blazing he appeared to her – in heat.
“Throw down your weapons,
Hold up your hands –
Move closer to each other
So I can bound your feet and hands.”
The army rounded the corner in the nick of time
While he tossed her atop his horse,
And sped away up the recline.
To keep her out of harm’s way and protected,
Under his appellation for life.
“My heart – I love you deeply”, she said
He, “ Querida, you are my life replete.
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