The Ballad of Colleen and Harvey
My life was made of wandering
Searching for another thing
Found balance when I found Colleen
I went out to the highway
My spirit had to fly away
Let the wind take my soul
Follow paths I can’t control
She got inside a friend’s dad’s van
Leave Spokane for Bellingham
Knowing what she did not know
Answers coming from life’s flow
My life was made of wandering
Searching for another thing
Found balance when I found Colleen
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I followed roads unseen to me
She learned new thing like hugging trees
Helping friends – being real
Seeing life by being here
Seattle called she knew not why
Orcas Island caught my eye
We both had needs to get away
Together called - a future day
We hit the road to the east
The Chevy wagon - friendly beast
Took a turn in Boise though
Ended up in Mexico
My life was made of wandering
Searching for another thing
Found balance when I found Colleen
Back north we sought to start again
New life from all our wandering
And boring thoughts of future times
Faltered as paths intertwined
Yakama Nation called to me
Huxley College - her destiny
A year apart let us know
That joining paths – the way to go
My life was made of wandering
Searching for another thing
Found balance when I found Colleen
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Next to islands we went back
Orcas tipi – San Juan shack
I wrote a letter telling of
Needing space to sort out love
I got there before the letter did
Guess the meaning wasn’t hid
When I looked ahead I could see
That future plans would be as we
My life was made of wandering
Searching for another thing
Found balance when I found Colleen
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On to Portland - learn a skill
See the future spirit’s will
Throw certain to the wind
Open up what’s inside hid
New England followed – calling us
The Dodge Dart wagon showed its stuff
Loaded down with all our things
But future called with western wings
My life was made of wandering
Searching for another thing
Found balance when I found Colleen
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So back out west our journey lead
Coeur d’Alene is where we’d head
Jerome and Devan flagged us down
Joined us - Northern Idaho town
We raised them there until we knew
We had another thing to do
Onward to the coast we bound
The mystic waters of Puget Sound
My life was made of wandering
Searching for another thing
Found balance when I found Colleen
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It wasn’t that I knew at once
An inner void that had been lost
Was filled with logic – not my own
She filled it up – life’s now a home
The quilt of life continues on
Looking for magenta dawns
The future’s not a given thing
But unknown promises it brings
The lesson that we’ve learned from this
Is not to question – not to quiz
The answers lying deep inside
If we can venture past our pride
This ballad’s one of hope and tears
Seeing answers – facing fears
Learning from the flow of things
Hearts hearing what is lost to kings