The Dam

from At the Light by Judge Russell

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I know most folks feel that way
when they're teenage,
but you were
you were invincible
your heart was overfull

taught me what the word was like
if you liked yourself as you were
confident and vulnerable
I wanted a river full

so when we drove over the dam
I wanted it to break
to build a new life as ourselves
on the other side of the lake

you said I'm that forever friend
that we could always hang like we did back then
but I wanna show you it's different
'cause now I'm strong like you've always been

I texted "can I come over
to the place you work?" and I did
tears fell in the coffee cup
off the clock, you cleaned them up

I told the story all meek and stuff
and you shared from what you had lived
first time and the condom broke
a tragicomic tale I know

teenage souls haunt every town there is
we marched over graves without looking
you opened up my world
showed me the seedy, the beautiful, gay cherubim
that we were

so when we drove over the dam
I wanted it to break
to build a new life as ourselves
on the other side of the lake

you said I'm that forever friend
that we could always hang like we did back then
but I wanna show you it's different
'cause now I'm strong like you've always been

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from At the Light, released December 31, 2021

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