You may be daring
and brilliantly alive
But I still can’t watch you go
prance on a precipice
Yes, I’m a little bit wrong here
Yes, I know caution is tippy
And faith in your balance —
My certain conviction
of your sure perfection —
Serves many times better
to safeguard your person
than all of my worries
and cries to be careful
I know it’s the same for me —
Times that I know
that although you can’t stand it
you know you must let me be free
You care that I care
And I feel that way, too
So we come to a balance
of what we will do
At times for each other
we’ll dial back the daring
And sometimes we’ll deftly belay
And sometimes we’ll hold
to the faith in our caring
and keep ourselves out of the way.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 4, 2012