The Tether Between Us

AT HOME, thinking that;

I'd tumble down a coal mine,

I'd leap into a well.

To be sitting in the cold back room,

Back in the Silver Bell.

While all the others mingled,

At a party for our friends,

Our eyes wandered from across the room;

And found the other's lens.

The music bounced and sang so loud,

We couldn't say the lines,

That love wrote for the look we shared;

But words can be landmines.

A shy boy dared not cross the floor-

Who left the words unspoken.

Why die in the first battle of a war-

Spend forever after broken?

When midnight drained the Silver Bell,

We left: alone, together,

And chalked the paths that led away

A line that was our tether.

When morning came we rose and shone;

Tugged the other to our arms,

And on the street outside the Silver Bell,

We joined forever at the palms.