Looking for One Safe Place

How many roads have I traveled?
How many dreams have I chased?
Across sand and sky and gravel,
Looking for one safe place.

Will you make a smoother landing?
When you break your fall from grace?
Into the arms of understanding,
Looking for one safe place.

Life is trial by fire,
And love's the sweetest taste.
And I pray it lifts us higher,
To one safe place.

How many roads we've traveled?
How many dreams we've chased?
Across sand and sky and gravel,
Looking for one safe place.


from Marc Cohn's One Safe Place

Two Years

Yesterday was our seven-hundred-thirtieth day. Twenty-fourth month. Second year. Second anniversary. Whew! Never hoped to be with someone this long. I cooked a simple dinner for me and Dub Dub. He came from work and spent the night in my apartment. It was a nice night. I remember the first time we spent the night with Dub Dub. I remembered how I lay my head on his chest and listen to the beating of his heart who constantly and always remind me that Dub Dub loves me. And if I can't hear his heartbeat, it means his far way.