(Better than I know me.)
Every thought and act and song,
Everything move that I've made wrong,
You have studied through and througher-
Know them better than I do
I forgot that you reside
Within my incapable mind.
How both sides of conversation
Are under your dictation
So you've known my motivation
Even when I didn't have one at all.
I forgot you're in old photographs
On railroad tracks
The ones of me and my father
Six years before I met you
In June.
You were there, after all:
My first steps and my first fall,
The days I grew from small to tall,
When I cut my hair too short,
When my time was split by court;
The first time I ate fish,
Every stupid birthday wish,
The summer I washed dish after dish after dish after meals.
Were you there when I formed my own ideals?
Or were you only there to judge them the summer I fell head over heels-
For someone else
