Not Yet

Are you coming? Are you staying?

Do you know what you want?

(ahhh) Not yet.

Everybody asks in future tense

Where you going, what comes next

I keep answers in my jacket

Lose them somewhere on the steps

Phone lights up, another question

Another door I should have met

Maybe I could choose forever

Just not yet Give me one more night

Without a name for it

One more wrong turn I don't have to fix

Not yet

Don't make me decide Not yet

I'm still changing my mind Leave the light on Leave a little

space

I might get there Just not today

Not yet

Not yet

Not—

Not— Not yet

Someone bought a house in April

Someone disappeared in June

Someone says they've found the answer

I still sleep past afternoon

I have loved things I outgrew

I have left before I knew

Maybe that's a kind of knowing

Maybe not

Give me one more night

Before it has to mean something

One unfinished line I don't have to complete

If I say yes too early

Will I have to stay?

If I say no too quickly

What do I throw away?

So ask me again

When the morning feels different

Ask me again

Not

yet

But I'm closer this time

Not

yet

And that's still an answer of mine Don't close the door Don't

circle the date I might get there

I might be late

Not yet

Not yet

Are you ready?

... Not yet.