"you don't know what a chance is until you have to seize one"

empty, no direction
but moving north

winding around back roads, too hard to drive
with the notions in my head

one more effort to assess my status
to have a body of understanding (I’ve mentioned it before)

i knew he’d be there, know just the right things to say and do:
leave me alone, listen, wonder and hold me

and he was with understanding beyond reason
beyond what i deserve, just exactly what i needed

knowing when to lay me down, let me sleep
care for me, think ahead when i could not

i am not often on the receiving end of this kind of care
and there is nothing i have to give him back

for this incredible kindness