Poetry from the book {The Lion and the Sun} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas

I pop out of the forest on to the trailhead

There is a Christian youth group in the parking area handing out food and drinks

They look like sheep who have been sent out to

feed the vagrants on the trail

A cute girl the size of a poodle asks me if I have Jesus in my life

I tell her I've got a beer can in my backpack that I'm quite content with

As I try to eat the food and drink that I am graciously given this little mountain girl bitches me out, you don't get nothin for free in life

She calls me an uncouth barbarian and in need of Christianity, and I smell bad

Well I guess you could be a good Christian woman and give a sponge bath

For five days I talk to no one, and within five seconds of so called civilization I'm verbally sparring with this Christian mountain girl

She confides in me she is looking for a man for marriage

I eat my food, say my thank yous, and get out of her clutches

North Carolina women play their religion kinda hard

I walk into the civilization of trees quite happily

And then as I'm walking the trail I start thinking she is going to be on the other side of this trail in five days

Oh my god she is

Two months later I get a phone call, she hasn't forgotten me.

Poem from the book {The Lion and the Sun} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas