POEM-AFTER I LEFT MY FAMILY-BY CHERYL V.-INSPIRED BY A NOVEL

AFTER I LEFT MY FAMILY BY CHERYL V.

AFTER I LEFT MY FAMILY AND RANCH TO PURSUE THE WILDERNESS, I HAD NO IDEA THAT I’D GET CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A TRAIN ROBBERY. AND END UP ON TERRITORY WITH WHICH I WASN’T FAMILIAR. THIS TRAIN ROBBERY LEFT ME WITH SOME MARKS WHICH I’M NOT PROUD OF ENDING UP WITH. THEN, RIGHT AFTER THAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE NEXT MORNING, I ENDED UP GOING AFOOT ON SOME STRANGE TERRITORY. ALL THAT TIME SPENT ALONE ON FOOT, I DIDN’T HAVE USE OF ANY COMPASS. SO, I HAD NO IDEA OF WHERE I HAVE BEEN HEADING ALL THAT TIME IN HAVING SO SENSE OF TIME WHILE TRAVELING. THEN, IT HAPPENED, THAT I BUMPED INTO SOME KID WHICH I THOUGHT TO BELIEVE JUS AT THAT TENDER YOUNG AGE OF ONLY SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN. AND THIS KID TURNED OUT TO BE ONE RUGGED AND TOUGH ONE. AND CLAIMED, HE WANTED TO BE OUT ON HIS OWN AND CLAIMED HE WAS A BOUNTY HUNTER. WITH THIS KID, SUDDENLY, ENTERING INTO MY LIFE, I DIDN’T KNKOW, THAT THIS SO-CALLED KID, TOOK OFF FROM HIS FAMILY AT ONE VERY YOUNG AGE. AND HE SEEMED TO BE SO SKILLED IN BOUNTY HUNTING. THAT I FIGURED THAT THIS KID SEEMED TO BE SO GOOD WITH GUNS. AT LEAST, THIS IS WHAT KIND OF FRONT, HE WAS PUTTING ON. SO THEN, BEING I HAD THIS RIFLE ON MY PERSON, I DECIDED, THEN, TO TEAM UP WITH THIS KID TO WORK ALONG WITH HIM AS A TEAM. AND THEN, I HAD THIS DESIRE TO WORK ALONG WITH HIM. FIGURED THAT HE’S INTERESTED IN HELPING ME OUT BECAUSE I’VE, SOMEHOW, GOT TO HUNT DOWN THE PERSONS, WHO HAD, ONCE, STAGED THIS MURDER HUNT ON MY FATHER? AND IN THE END, AT A YOUNG AGE, HAD TO FIND OUT, THAT MY ORIGINAL FATHER HAD BEEN KILLED BY THESE TWO GUYS, WHO, ORIGINALLY, WERE OUT TO PLAN THEIR SCHEME TO TAKE MY FATHER FROM ME WHEN I, AT LEAST, EXPECTED IT TO HAPPEN. SO, THEN, THIS ANGER SURGED INSIDE ME, SO STRONGLY, THAT I GOT THIS SUDDEN URGE WHEN OLDER TO JUS WANT TO LEAVE MY FAMILY AND RANCH JUS BECAUSE I, NO LONGER, FELT WANTED AMONGST THE FAMILY. AND THIS ANGER, ALSO, MADE ME, WANT TO ALL OUT TO GO ON A HUNT, MYSELF, JUS SO THAT, HOPEFULLY, NO MATTER HOW MUCH TRAVELING; IT WOULD TAKE TO ACCOMPLISH TO SATISFY MY ANGER. TO THEN, GO OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS. AND THEN, HOPE THAT WITH MUCH URGE TO WANT TO SEEK REVENGE AGAINST THOSE TWO MEN, WHO HAD KILLED MY FATHER. SO, WHEN I RAN INTO THIS SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD KID BEING THAT I THOUGHT, HE SEEMED SO GOOD WITH A GUN. THAT THE TWO OF US WOULD MAKE A GREAT TEAM. AND THAT WE COULD TRAVEL ALL OVER THE PLACE TOGETHER. AND THAT THIS YOUNG KID, ALWAYS, DRESSED LIKE A BOY. AND APPEARED TO, ALSO, BE SO TALL AND SKINNY AND SMALL BUILT. NOT UNTIL WE APPROACHED THIS ONE MOTEL, DID I FIND OUT, THAT EVEN SO THIS KID ACTED LIKE A BOY? THAT IN REALITY, WHEN SHE’S SLEEPING, HER SKIN APPEARED TO BE SO SMOOTH AND TENDER LIKE A GIRL. THAT ONE MORNING, AFTER I SPENT ALL NIGHT LONG BY A FIRE OUTSIDE. AND THEN, COULDN’T EVEN SLEEP ONE WINK, ALL NIGHT LONG JUS BECAUSE THIS KID LOOKED LIKE A GIRL WHEN SLEEPING. AND I COULDN’T GET MYSELF TO DEAL WITH THIS SITUATION OF HER, HAVING FAKED BEING A BOY, ALL THIS TIME; WE’VE BEEN TOGETHER IN TRAVELS. THAT MORNING, SHE, FINALLY, CONFESSED TO ME. THAT ALL THIS TIME, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER. THAT THIS KID HAS BEEN TRYING TO COVER UP THE FACT OF, REALLY, BEING A TOMBOY WHICH HE APPEARED TO BE HOWEVER IN REALITY, REALLY WAS A KID. AND THIS KID, ONLY, BOY’S CLOTHES, ONLY, BECAUSE SHE, ALWAYS, RODE A HORSE.