RIDE TOGETHER
 
It was just one of those thoughts
Okay if I keep it in my head.
That would be okay with me.
I never should have wrote it down.
I have a habit of sending them off.
I should have just walked away,
nice & quiet like a rock in the woods
& blanket it on something rather than you & me.
 
You carved yourself pretty good in me.
I know that has nothing to do with me.
It's just the way you are.
How your face shines in light
& how your voice sounds post midnight.
I push myself to pull this load. 
Heat from our sun to remind me to keep this run. 
Nothing's easy.  Nothing for free. 
Nothing but gold to gain. 
This pain is for me. 
Bleed out weakness until I can't stand me being me. 
There's your smile. 
Your face on graffiti walls. 
When church bells chimes & calls.
Looking back is a heavy weight.
Feels like it surrounds my balance & step.
I'll have to work through pain, ride this out myself.
 
Could we ride together was my first words
that I ever had you hear from me.
I knew it would be your pain.
I never wanted you to hurt.
It wasn't our turn to forever ride together.
Unteathered.
We still have to ride.