Bridges (in need of repair)

I broke the bridge

when I stood on it

the rivets ripped from the beam

the roaring of cars

like the raging river below

rushing past 

trying to make it across

in time, but swept away

because current events have an undertow

that pull us all in

like the time when I asked her to dance

and she said she was waiting for somebody

some one else, anybody but me

so I didn't sweep her off her feet

only myself, because when I slipped

I broke the bridge