Egret

I sent you sunshine from California

You lived in the city then

You never got it

Stayed on the phone til 3

You were burning and crashing

Tired of the concrete

I would’ve sent you the ocean

But I was not your lover

I was a symbol

I was an egret

I was your silhouette

A shadow you wish you’d shed

Why the hell did you keep on calling

I was sinking alone

Said I needed space

To breathe on my own

Suffocating in your self made problems

Loving you was like being under water

Breathing through a straw

I would’ve sent you the ocean

But I was not your lover

I was a symbol

I was an egret

I was your silhouette

A shadow you wish you’d shed

Trying to pull you out

From six feet underground

And I kept clawing

You kept stalling

It was then I was freer than I’d ever been

When we stopped talking

And you kept walking

I was not your lover

I was a symbol

I was an egret

I was your silhouette

A shadow you wish you’d shed

A shadow you wish you’d shed