Gaining Ground by Tim McFate published on 2022-05-30T17:53:12Z Gaining Ground When I was eighteen a friend asked me to take his girlfriend with me back to our hometown. He said he would follow in a week or two…He never showed up. She stayed with me for a few months. It didn’t occur to me at the time but I think she was only sixteen and what was really happening was that she was running away from home. It was my first experience living with someone other than my immediate family. I did what I thought I was supposed to do but I also did what I could under the circumstance. Eventually her father showed up at the bottom of our stairs and without speaking a word took her home. I don’t even remember her name now. I think of myself as a good partner but that isn’t always the consensus of those who I partner with. I have learned a lot from those beginnings. Well I heard my ex-wife talking to our neighbor About her new.. boy …friend She said I’m so used to taking care of others Well he is taken care of me instead You know I felt a little funny Cause i knew she was talking about me Thats not the way I remember it No i do not remember it to be that way When I was 18 I took in a runaway She crawled into my bed On the 7th day I played her music and I cooked her food I did everything that I thought I could Down stairs to mikes ohhh we would go Find that water bed and sink right in Yeah yea, we would begin again For fear of choking on you For fear of something new Well it tears me apart and it pushes me away I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope that i will bend You know I’ve been mistaken I have been down on my knees But i never have forsaken never have forsaken All those things that were given to me I look at my feet in the morning And I wonder where they are bound I should be picking flowers I should be gaining ground