River Sacramento
I wish to find a river slow
Somewhere to slip a toe and swim
No fear of getting swept away
Towards that place I came from

Day by day it seems to fade
The place of home and family
Taken by fire and storm
Only left with memory

I was not there could not save
Not sure I am brave enough
Off trying to find work
To feed that family

There wasn't work close to home
So I wandered met hearts of stone
Asked for anything that needed done
Finished that and continued on

Now returned to ash and ruin
Some tombstones they tell me waiting
Engraved not yet and better left
For my day of reckonning