Threads - Carrie Newcomer

I have hands like my grandma

Rough and wide

A smile like my father

Kinda crooked on one side

And the thread of our union

Pulls through the years

Through the burdens and rejoicing

Through the courage and the fear

Let the wind blow like horses

Running wild across the sky

Let the doors close and open

Pull us in or pass us by

We have all followed the fabric

Wherever it led

Joined to one another by

Invisible thread

We were mean mama lions

With babies on our hips

Two were workin' at the grocery

One was livin' on tips

Two fell sick and one recovered

Three divorced and one went clean

One lost a child last April

One’s still chasin' a dream

Let the wind blow like horses

Running wild across the sky

Let the doors close and open

Pull us in or pass us by

We have all followed the fabric

Wherever it led

Joined to one another by

Invisible thread

If I live to be a hundred

I won’t forget your eyes

Or the feel of your body

Lying next to mine

No one loves you like I do

No one knows you so well

All the ghosts that still haunt you

Or the secrets you won’t tell

Let the wind blow like horses

Running wild across the sky

Let the doors close and open

Pull us in or pass us by

We have all followed the fabric

Wherever it led

Joined to one another by

Invisible thread