For My Family: From Colorado

Mama there's a mountain under the moon tonight

and the starlight is falling

there's a thousand miles between us, across this great divide and it's too late to be calling

But I wanted you to know that even through this snow

I’d be crawling on my hands and knees to find you

Though the stations have been set I know I won’t regret

Even the smallest hint of kindness to remind you

Papa there’s a big cloud and it’s coming down quick

Swallowing the moon and stars that guide you

There’s trouble on the hillside and trouble in the ditch

There’s nowhere to turn that it won’t find you

But I wanted you to know that everything you’ve shown

Is a beacon in this dark that seeks to hide you 

So be luminous and brave and hope for better days

In the morning the sunlight will still shine through

Sisters of my heart although we’ve been apart

These miles stand between us as illusion

And brother in my dreams we are stitched up at the seems 

And drink from flowing streams of sweet collusion 

So I wanted you to know that every day I grow

A little less entitled to my knowing 

And even though I’ve gone I’ll remember you in song

Gathered around the coals watching their glowing