So certain that you can't imagine who you are
All you've brought into fruition didn't seem to travel far
From the house that you grew up in and the town that it's a part
Stripped of every loving thing and all you've loved until our start
Watching me monitor the patterns that the tears on your face carve

Sick, getting much sicker
Impossible to be consoled
Grasping your hand, I can't hold tighter without crushing every bone
My ability to raise your spirits, dying on its own; never more impotent or unconvincingly sold than when I'm terrified that I might be your only source of hope

All faced with the unexpected, we're reminded of our birth
When our world exploded outward and our womb became the earth
And we cried to feel so free, and we cried to feel so spurned
And we took down their directions without caring how they learned
We're all catching with our right hands if our left are overturned

I know you were misdirected,
I know you were badly burned
When I told you where to get to without knowing where you were
Now your head is balanced gently on a neck that's giving way
Tired legs keep it from falling though it nearly does each day
I would carry you to safety if I had a place to stay