All We Have To Be Thankful For

She clutches onto his protruding hips

For dear life

Going down

She is going under

She wishes he were emotional

Or something approaching tenderness

Outside the weather beats a little harder

Than her heart

Not even this will keep them together

She makes love

He makes time pass a little less painfully

One and the same perhaps

This time it could be everything

It's enough reason for staying

It's enough to make you want to die

The hardest part is trying

Not to make a mess of it all

It's all we have to be thankful for.