I took a step back
To come forward
And I turned around
And saw how weird
I was in my tracks

Moving onward
With my memories
Slaughtered
I raise a new calf
To be mothered
An alternative to beef
Because I can't eat pets

I see the same odd steps
Looking back at the pattern I left
The same me winding in a different mindset
Yet the same tracks

Perhaps changing my shoes
Could walk through a changed past
Altering the same man
Who was better than the last

I step back in the tracks
And walk toward the old path
How peculiar they set in the regret
Of each memory stepped past

I hear the cow bells clang
Ringing the song I sang
As a child before I knew how to dance

How clumsy my feet
To the tracks of weird beats
I felt odd
And didn't know what to do with my hands

I took a step back
Then forward
And twirled my lover
Toward the ballrooms band
As I took the lead
She took my hand
And the song climbed
Where we ran
Toward the same steps
I traced with crayons

These feet could walk
Different streets
And slide across various beats
To equal the same math

It is all futile each track
Song or step in the pasture
Where the cows graze on each path
Taking steps forward and back
Turning around repeating
What thou hath
Learned

A new dance