Purple Dress

(these are song lyrics for a song I have written)

I had this peach dress,

With lots of lace,

That I wore with my pink converse

 As I raced

 Down the hall

With my sister and Noelle Sutton.

And the church looked like a castle

And all the pastor boys were dumb.

And we played with the Holy Spirit

While our mommas spoke in tongues.

But I never liked dresses much

At least when I was young

          Nowhere to put your stuff

          No climbing trees or having fun.

                  

Found a purple dress

In this place

On a corner in Little Five Points.

The light

That October day

Showed it frail, yet showed me regal.

 And Kara tried some hats on

And I tried dresses on one by one

And in the end we both agreed

It should be the simple purple one.

But I never liked dresses much

      At least when I was young.

              Had to look pretty and stuff,

          Too much that could be touched.

           

Take me back to the streetlights 

The fireflies 

When it was time to go home.

When I memorized

All of the lines

To ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’

And my peach dress went to Goodwill;

And dresses Grandma made? -- outgrown.

And a purple dress feels really different 

When you think it’s for the one

   

But, I never liked dresses much

 At least when I was young.

Had to look proper enough.

Sometimes it’s hard to run.

I never liked dresses much

 Fabric to become

Stitched in time, moments woven

That can never be unswen.