Waving From a Sea

It came from out of nowhere

I was standing in the door

Empty in my hands

Wanting something more

If you saw it didn’t matter

The ways in which I tried

If I carried you along

Held your hair back in the night

In a graduation gown

In vintage ballet flats

You were waving from a sea

Of graduation caps

We slept all night long

With the window open

It was seven degrees and snowing

I thought you were joking

I had a dream we were in a car

I was driving and we hadn’t gotten far

And you remembered something you forgot to grab

Remember when that would have made me mad

And it seemed like suddenly

There was nothing more to say

The pattern and the cycle

Was all worn away

You felt so close

You were a tattoo on my arm

Deep inside the living

The beating of my heart

In a graduation gown

In vintage ballet flats

You were waving from a sea

Of graduation caps

Shadows are stretched in the hours before dark

That’s when the distance finally hits its mark

They tore the silo down in an afternoon

I see straight across the field

I see straight into your room

But the lights are out and the house is gone

And there’s concrete poured over the lawn

That stained my jeans and held us into dawn

With a couple empty cans we had stolen from your mom

In a graduation gown

In vintage ballet flats

You were waving from a sea

Of graduation caps