(Never) Good Enough

from STRAYS by Jason Douglass Swearingen

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Underneath the Belpre Toll Bridge,
we laid back and kicked our feet
into the muddy waters of the Ohio.
You tugged at my shoestrings.

Finding pay phones to call our mothers
near the all-night diners where we'd eat.
You took my photo in the corner booth.
We paid the tips that our friends wouldn't leave.

We made it out back then
just to prove that it could be done.
Are you happy?
Do you still feel loved?
Because "good enough" is never good enough.

Just a few years ago seems like forever -
that jukebox, lifetimes away.
You'd pay the extra for "Funeral Procession"
just to watch the dance floor writhe in hate.

The light in your eyes as you sang the lines
for me will never fade.
It's one of the only true, remaining things that I have left
in a world that's gone grey.

We made it out back then
just to prove that it could be done.
Are you happy?
Do you still feel loved?
Because "good enough" is never good enough.

I don't think the man that I used to be
as a boy would recognize me now,
and I can't say if that's good or it's bad,
but it's something.
Oh, it's something.

We made it out back then
just to prove that it could be done.
Are you happy?
Do you still feel loved?
Because "good enough" is never good enough.

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from STRAYS, released June 16, 2015

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