your shoulder

written for robby, march of 2006

If you should fall,

I'll shall pick you up
and we'll start once more.
And if I should stumble in our walk,
it is your shoulder
that I would reach for.

If I should waver
in my dedication.
Then lift my chin
so you mine eyes may see.
And the reason I walk beside you,
and you with me.

Sorrows come and tears will flow.
But the day begins again
in the arms of those
we herald as men.