“Times”
By Savannah Rankin
She sits alone looking into the sky
Wondering where he's gone
It seemed like only yesterday
She thought he was the one
But times change and people grow
Sometimes they grow apart
Sometimes they grow closer
Sometimes they break their hearts
Sometimes we look in wonder
Sometimes in joy or shame
Sometimes in shock
Sometimes in love
Sometimes in awe or pain
She smiles at the stars
As it passes through her mind
That wherever he may wander
He's still hers tonight
“I am a Nicolet transfer student striving toward graduation in these beautiful woods many of us call home.”
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“Dakota”
By Paul Ehlers
When the moon is shining in my window
Reflected off of the snow below
The empty silence speaks, and my anxiety peaks,
And I’m ready to go
With the wind blowing from Dakota
And the sun riding low in the sky
I button up my shirt, and get on back to work,
And make another try
There’s an old man living by the river
He don’t get on alone too good
When the weather’s cold, he gets to feeling old
I go and cut his wood
We’ve done quite a lot of talking
He’s got a lot of things left on his mind
Like how he used to be when he was young and free
The things he left behind
I said I’d probably end up just like him
Reliving all the mistakes that I made
I was such a fool, I did too well in school
I learned to be afraid
“This is a song I wrote a long time ago. I always have considered myself a happy-go-lucky type of person, but most of my original music contradicts this. Sort of like Faye Dunaway talking about her photographs to Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor. I always think I write songs about other people, but maybe this isn’t accurate either.”
