Ten to Twenty

Different ways of counting fingers
Running through your hair
Ten to twenty lifelines
If you doubt how this compares

There's fear enough to share a fear of loathing
So easy how you bear
The trace of me without you there

So fall like the snow, too much to slow
Too fragile to stay hanging over every day
A breeze with contempt to shame the others
A story so thin to cover all your lovers

Count me out your standards
Shadow trade in competence
Ten to twenty answers shouting down on confidence

Too easy not to share, too vain for secrets
There's fear enough in there
A taste of need in someone's care