You told me, just when the bell rang after lunch
“I can’t find a date for the Valentine’s Day social dance.”
It was the first week of January and it didn’t occur to me to tell you
That maybe you were giving up a little early
I wrote you a note on a piece of yellow paper
And spent a long time folding it to make sure it was perfect
It was the second week of January and only this had occurred to me:
“How about a friend date?”
Three years and I’ve learned this much about you:
You always do things the hard way
If I could have seen above the place I’d set you in my mind
Well, I couldn’t have. Not with my eyes
You told me, just before we went through the doors
“I don’t want to go stag together. I want to go together.”
You dragged me out in front of everyone and made me dance
And when your favorite song played, you grabbed my waist
And I wished, that night, that you would never go away
Never graduate, never go to college, never meet him
Never get married. Never have a beautiful son
With his mother’s perfect chin and his Daddy’s eyes