Steady Steady Yes

We might lose a little something but I'll get tough enough
To make it through the times I am too lonely, too scared or too sad
Where the mountain road is stretched too thin on Pine Creek Pass
I want to cry; instead I drive too fast
You know you scare yourself a little, you scar the place that's bleeding
Scare yourself enough and you won't ever be the same
You'll never sit around the kitchen, talk about that guy who had a horse named—
Oh, what the hell was that horse's name?

We might lose a little something for all the time you are wherever you are
But that's the story and never mind
I loved you sleeping while I turned in our little nest
You have a sweet, soft mouth, a tattooed chest
We spent a long night under someone else's roof
Rain came down like trouble, later like hooves
Later still like a heartbeat, steady, steady, yes
It was good, it was good, it was good
It was desperate

We might lose a little something but it won't be that restless stir
That keeps me knowing how many hours or days or weeks or months it is
Until our roads converge
Or how many miles it's been since that place
Where I fell apart and you held me kindly
Then let me slip away so far I don't know how you'll ever find me
Or all the broken pieces lost to us
From something so perfect
And so preposterous

©1998 Annie Gallup