Can We Be Still

Home early with the flu

Your parents pick us up from the airport

Home early from school

Your first son will love me like he loves his mama, and

His middle name, someone we lose

Before the age of children

His oldest friend, one of my own

Together when we leave them

Now do you understand?

I don't have another plan

Now is the time to say

What it is you've been dreaming of saying

The sun is out today

We're choosing shades of white for every room, and I

Open up my eyes

And find us growing up together like I was

So scared to lose, to be alone

In staying close and knowing

For twenty years, look in the mirror

Do you know that person there

Five feet away?

Eleven days of endless change

Can we be still?

Can we be still?

Can we just be?

Now do you understand?

I don't have another plan

Now is the time to say

What it is you've been dreaming of saying

Oh, now do you understand?

I don't have another plan

Now is the time to say

What it is you've been dreaming of saying, mm