Rodeo and Another 8 Seconds by Paula Hayes

Ride it out 

See where it leads

I will treat my heart like this is a rodeo

Queen to fucking queen 

Get on that horse and stay on it as long as I can 

8 seconds of love or disaster in hand 

Until I am bucked off by the wildness of it all 

 

Because you cannot tame passion

And why would you want to tame passion?

Taming passion only makes it less passionless 

And what is the good in that, huh? 

Ugh, ugh, I never used the word in texts till her…so ugh! 

I cannot say my heart is broken

I don’t think it is 

Which is unusual for me 

Because my heart is usually broken so easily 

I think it is because I knew she really loved me 

And even if the ending wasn’t pretty 

The ending was wild and untamed like the ride itself

Like the passion itself

And the ending was inevitable

I still feel her love for me 

And I won’t lie, sometimes it gets me through the day 

I am greedy, sometimes! That’s just the way it is! 

It is just some moments I remember

The sound of her laughter and her voice 

 

I learned to be my own Hollywood

Place myself in the movies 

I will be the star of my own making

With another horse, another sunset

Another rodeo, never winning 

Never getting the fame

Never conquering the flame  

Paula Hayes is a poet hanging out in Memphis, the same town where the ghost of Elvis hangs out. Music imbibes her soul so it seems a natural fit.