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Gold Dust

from Blood in the Dirt by Verso Folio

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6.

He’s gone. My boy is gone.

After our argument he started picking up extra shifts in the mine. I woke up one morning and he wasn’t home, and I thought he might’ve taken my words to heart and worked through the night.

Come to find he was working late with a crew of a few other men, and in the wee hours of the morning there was a cave-in. Two of the men made it out, but the rest were lost. My Jackson was among them. I reached for gold and I lost everything I ever had.

I’m a hard man, but I must’ve cried for hours. Days maybe. Didn’t eat. Didn’t sleep. After a while something about this grief seemed off, and that’s when I remembered I wasn’t the only one who lost him.

I went up to the farm to talk to the farmer’s daughter, to give her my condolences, to give her my thanks for giving Jackson at least a bit of happiness in this cold, hard life of ours before he went, and to give my apologies for trying to put a stop to it.

She asked what I was planning on doing now, and I told her the truth: I had no idea. She told me wait right there at the fence surrounding the farm, and she ran off. I waited for a while, almost feeling a fool, but then she came back with her Pa, and he told me there was room and food and work on their farm for me, if ever I needed it, and Lord did I need it.

Seems to me we spend most of our lives falling. I fell for a woman, she fell below the earth. I fell for a ruse, I fell in a river, my boy fell in love, and I let him fall so far I’ll never find him again.

But at least for right now, I’ve got solid ground to stand on. Maybe for the first time since I lost my wife.

I guess sometimes that’s enough. I guess sometimes it has to be.

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from Blood in the Dirt, released December 9, 2022

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Verso Folio Kansas City, Missouri

digital music for digital folks.

instrumental alt-rock soundscapes. telling stories through vibe and emotion. (and the words I post on each album's page.)

i'm trying to learn music theory and production. these are the projects i make along the way. ... more

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