You'll never know
How fast the car goes
Just by tracing the lights.

You can always take
That first short leap—
Like taking your first baby step.

And have that doubt
First cross your mind
When the light comes big.

Like spotlights for your
Dance of life and death
Between a merciless truck.

And when the time is right
Take flight, play tango
On a four-lane highway

Just to have my sleeve
Be grabbed, be dragged
And my heart—left open—on the other side.