Daniel

Daniel (18-060Z)

Every time I hear

The song Daniel*

I remember the day on the tarmac

Waiting on the plane at Stapleton

The old headphones

Tethered to the seat

Engines rev up, brakes release

Galloping down the runway

On an adventure of a lifetime

Leaving everyone and everything behind

Soon enough half a world away

In the lush jungle of Papua

As gaze at the stars and unfamiliar constellations

Realize my love was waking

Surreal to be so far away

Ambivalence of being in two places at once

Memories play of 7600 miles away

The panhandle of Nebraska

While present in a highland valley

All unwrapped each time I hear Daniel*

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (18-060Z)

*Elton John song

From an old fragment of thought I had written down years ago. The lyrics talk about Daniel on a plane; and I heard it while taking off from the old Stapleton airport.