Dash ©July 9, 2021, David Hubbard
I’d been lost
Double-crossed
Stepping on and off of the track again
Living like I’d never get it back again
I’d been tossed
Giving like a goddamned man again
And damn the cost
She ran free
To the sea
Opened her arms to the road ahead
Felt the sweet charms of the road that led
her to me
Thinking that she might reload ahead
Refresh, be free
And when the sky poured down ahead of me
As if to sigh for what you’d said to me
Blushing and shy, nodded your head to me
And winked your eye like breaking bread for me
And later when I saw you on the lawn
Only you and I up with the dawn
There with only fate to chance upon
I felt cold
I’d been told
Could have gone to bed when the fire died
Ended up instead by the riverside
I felt bold
Had to try something I’d never tried
No guts; no gold
She ran fast
From the past
Didn’t want to speak of our flaws a while
Thinking if she waited or paused a while
She’d be last
Leaving the confusion we’d caused a while
At long last
Said if I die and you remember me
Then I will fly to the edge of the sea
And touch the sky as it falls away from me
And testify that you’re my everything
Then, later when I saw you on the lawn
Only you and I up with the dawn
There with only fate to chance upon
I felt good
In my old ‘hood
Had a few beers on a Saturday
Figured that I’d rather go that-a-way
than be good
Feeling like I could have been badder
Hey, but that’s understood
