Independence Day

the power lines are sparking under broken pecans the muted door knocking of the fireworks I have come looking for you though I know where you are this house ain't who I left it with your bed is gone with you in it and I have been talking to you cause I know where you are just outside just outside the city limits you're buried in the fields you played in the bugs are crawling where the babies were born your veins have taken root and I have stopped counting the times that I dream about you waking up waking up and forgetting that you're not in your body it's Independence Day it's Independence Day mom now you don't have to be anyone the lemon oil that you rubbed in your hands smiling through the pain you always had and I have seen your eyes in a child and everywhere else sparkling through sparkling through the darkness on Independence Day it's Independence Day mom now you don't have to be anyone