How to hold her

There was a part of me that only you knew how to hold

I remember the relief when I felt your love like sunlight on my back

And how I became aware of what power was and wasn’t when you traded that sunlight for silence

I tried to trade you my acres of untouched forest for your few silver guns

I tried to catch myself, tried to yell after her and tell her to come back home, he’s not out there anymore

I stayed up all night worried

She was only a child that I could not control

Oh if only I knew how to hold her