The Slender Margins

For 30 years without the savior who pried you from loss
Adopting a family that held thorns and roses in equal parts
Ignoring the tenets, skating on mores, and firing your own boss
It's impossible to tell someone what you meant in our hearts

Thank god it's over and that you have the break you deserved
I hope you find him there and that it all will now be clear
After a lifetime of letdown, hope for you was fully interred
Can't imagine seeing them all again and you not shedding a tear

We continue on, wondering why we failed and succeeded
The wall remains unbreeched, and we remain broken on it
The lies that protected us also forced us to be unbelieving
I sit and work through the years backwards, soaking in it
And yet, it still remains untenable.
Someday we'll sit beneath the shade, and you can tell me all.