One Empty Drawer

I made a little room

You leave your shirt across the chair
I fold it while you're brushing your teeth
You laugh and say I run a hotel
I laugh a little later than I mean
There's a drawer that catches on the runner
I've been meaning to clear it out for weeks

You say you never asked to move in
I know; I never asked you to stay

One empty drawer
You can put your summer in it
I keep saying there's room in my life
Come and see if I finally mean it

You come back with a paperback and nothing
Set it down beside the bedroom light
You say, I like the way you say you want me
I don't like packing up to prove you're right
I move a card I kept from an old birthday
You watch me make a little space for now

One empty drawer
You can put your summer in it
I keep saying there's room in my life
Come and see if I finally mean it

It wasn't all the things you might leave here
It was knowing you could leave here too
I kept one easy way to call this nothing
Now I'm asking what feels right to you

One empty drawer
You can put your summer in it
I keep saying there's room in my life
Come and see if I finally mean it

One empty drawer
Leave whatever you want to