MISTRESS IN RED

"Where are your spurs, cowboy?" you said,

But yours were the spurs that goaded my heart 'til it bled,

You are my sweet, cruel mistress in red,

Who, with no thought, not caring, taught

me  how to wish I were dead.

One single kiss is all that you gave

and left me alone,

like a dog with no bone,

and made me your suffering slave.

And so I ride with the cattle by night,

and harry the moon and the stars with my plight,

"Where are your spurs, Cowboy? "she said,

My beautiful, cruel mistress in red!

The       End