Bikes and Bridges

Even columbus looks better on the back seat of a bike
And all my fears get washed away in a stream of blinking lights
And the concrete strip below seems less like a noose
And more like a tie that binds
Or at least a tourniquet.

It’s been such a hard season
And the bridges we burned might be all we had to keep us from drowning.
But at least we had this time;
And I'd like to think we're better off for it.

And I- I’ll remember this:
Sometimes broken things make the best building supplies.
And we'll keep on building.
Hearts aren't made of glass,
They're made of muscle and blood and something else.
And they don't so much as break as bend and tear.

We have what it takes to keep it together;

and move on.