The Need

By: Barabara Waters aka Eclectic Gramma

We ride together, my steed and I
                              into the waning sun
It is a need, no less than that
                              'though most would call it fun

This need to ride - to feel the thrum
                               of power beneath my feet
Is all at once exciting,
                               delicious, honey sweet

To ride through rainstorms,
                               cold, gray fog or sunny days
Past caribou and moose,
                               seeing fox along the way . . .

My steed and I, though separate parts
                               when riding become one
We share this need - a need to ride
                               into the setting sun


"The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
---Albert Einstein



10/98