The Blue Dress Waiting

Cardboard boxes on the dusty floor

Sorting through the kitchen and the old screen door

Found a photo of a summer night

Dinners on the porch in the golden light

But upstairs in the quiet space Hanging in the back of her

secret place Is a shade of blue

I haven't seen in years

She saved her dollars from the grocery line To buy me something

she could never find For graduation day so long ago

Before the bitter words began to grow

We had that argument,

I packed my pride I left the house with everything inside Believing

she had locked me out of her heart

And oh, you kept my blue dress waiting All those years in

the dark

Hanging on a promise

Like a quiet, burning spark

I thought the distance made us strangers

But the colors never faded away

Then my fingers hit a paper fold Hidden in the hem of

the faded gold A handwritten note sewn in the seam To keep

it safe inside a broken dream

Her faded pencil wrote,

My darling child No storm can change the way you made me

smile

Please come home And I read the words through falling tears Realizing

we lost all those precious years

Over a pride that was never worth the pain We were always

bigger than the rain (oh-oh-oh)

And oh, you kept my blue dress waiting!

All those years in the dark Now I'm wrapping up the memory

And the love that left its mark

I know the distance couldn't break us Yeah,

the colors never faded away

So I pull the zipper up and wear it proud And I

step outside beneath the morning cloud

Into the light (into the light)