SAMUEL LUDKE - POEMS

Samuel Ludke is an American Poet and Western Writer from Wisconsin. His poetry books and western novels are available at Barnes and Noble's website, as well as other online retailers.​

Nothing is out of the question

​Could not have made him understand
What is the point?
You are not afraid
You are not prepared to die
Prepared to meet your maker
I'm not afraid to make a future for myself in heaven
Whatever you need
You blessed my head with water
And kept my sane through all of the pain
But nothing was safe on Earth
Until the world accepts you
We will always miss the mark
This is beautiful, what you have created
And yet we tarnish it
We bring this enemy down upon us and then cry about it
We are not ever going to reach you
We must put gender differences aside
And realize we are all going nowhere
What is the point of this life then?
To be yourself
Be what you want to be
There is nothing that we can do to make things right
But God, let's keep on trying
Let's make this world much better than it already is!

​Your grave

​Your grave is deep
Dig you up
Skeleton dances with me
I want to be your love
But you didn't understand
You made me feel good
Dancing under moonlight
You got me to move
Ending up under the dirt
You are supposed to be my love
And when you dance
You proved that you missed me
Hands made of bone
And pelvis made of stone
Making me see the world differently
You could have killed me
But I lost myself
Dance with me skeleton
I'm dancing with my daughter
I'm dancing with the slaughter
And you never knew what you meant to me.

Ready

​I was ready to go to God
I want to find him
So I took a moment
To load my rifle
Going out to the woods
And we find the beautiful little mule deer
We find the trees
The beautiful little grass strands
And the squirrels are chattering
Make me happy
Make me freeze out here
May they find me there in peace.

Why the laughing?

​Why the laughing?
Did you forget your place?
Amoungst the stars?
You are mine and yet you fight
For a man that is not yours
I am flattered by your house
But money cannot buy me.

Waving through the clouds

​Waving through the clouds
I love the way the world turns
Because of men and men alone
We found the way home
Nothing in the morning
In the night
We can find the light again
We are the champions that light the world
I would be happy with nothing at all
You and I are meant to be
We glide through the silver worlds
And remerge outside!

I don't really understand

​I don't really understand
I want to be somebody but I can't
I am one man so I struggle
I don't think I can be this way
I don't think I can get up in the morning
I don't think I can fight with my hands
Because I am me
I am trying to see myself through your eyes
But I cannot
I don't fight men who lie
Because they hurt me
I don't fight you
Because you walk where you cannot find yourself.

​If you walked with me

​If you walked with me
We could see the sunshine
One thing to remember
Is that the day was better with you
We loved each other
There is my life
There is yours
I loved you when you left me anyway
Because the rain told me too
It spoke to you
It made you notice me
It made you kiss me
There is something in your mind
That hurts me!

Hope

Hope you love me
Hope you need me
I hope you and I will always stick together
If we don't
At least we made each other
I am really happy
Because I try to make you happy
Somedays I feel like nothing
Round of applause for me
I really hope that you can still see me girl
In the mirror I watch you dance
Naked tonight
If you touch me, you will be a momma
But you already knew that
You are perfect
You are perfect for life
But life spits you back out.

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Now I'm grown

I'm grown now
I keep my love inside me
But somedays I just don't know what to do
I found her in my life
But still I walk this lonely road
Kiss my neck and I grab your ****
I'm grown but I will always make you feel like a kid again
This is what I need to do
I need to make you feel good again, for your sake
You are so stressed, why?
Can't I love you baby?
Can't I make you feel the right way? If I can always love you, I will
Just stay here for me please!

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​Where are the best?

​Do they wander in the valleys?
Did the free find there own destruction?
Yes, yes, we can try to avoid it 
But where would man be without the serpent?
Would they water thier fields and tend to thier flocks?
No there would be death, withering plants, and starlight avoided 
You cannot tell me that you would never walk amoungst the flowers again
Taste of the wild berries 
There is more to life than you think 
And the best is yet to come.

Can you?

Can you spare me the pain?
Can you find the lost cause again?
There are many stories of fear and doubt
But you found yourself wishing, wishing for me to return
Did I let you down?
Did I find you at your worst?
There was hope and freedom at your grasp
And you abandoned it 
For greed and money you did lose it all!

What ails the sheep?

​They stir at night
There was nothing we could have done
The wolves prowled and never left 
Now the Christ has come 
To lift the spirits of all those who would have thier spirits won 
What else could we do?
Pray?
Maybe, but the price has already been paid
So be it 
You cannot be afraid of the past
The God of hope redeems you when you are ready
That is all.