Excerpt BFP: Chivalry's Return

         Now that I'm older
         I smile much more
         because I find it funny
         that with all the independence you proclaim,
         you stand still

         At the edge, after the first step
         where love turns into a sewery moat,
         you wait

         for me to throw down my jacket,
         and help you over,
         serve as a life preserver,
         that difficult knot, you can't swim

         only because you refuse
         to try
         to see. if I'll rescue you