Reva Thereafter

You were the mother who said to her child, "You bring it up slowly"
 All of these buoys, they mark the traps, and you were the only
 Woman for fifty miles who could lift something like that
 You'd cook them up in seawater soon as you got back
 Reva, thereafter
 Up to the rafters
 Up through the plaster
 Up through the highest beams, I will
 Sing of your wonder
 In a voice like thunder
 Sometimes your heart bursts at its seams
 The sound of a nighttime passing train wakes me from a slumber
 The creeping of time keeps me awake, won't let me go under
 But sometimes forgetting is all you need to get some sleep
 Why have you left here, and what does it mean for me?
 Reva, thereafter
 Up to the rafters
 Up through the plaster
 Up through the highest beams, I will
 Sing of your wonder
 In a voice like thunder
 Sometimes your heart bursts at its seams
 You wrote the letters one by one into the setting of the sun
 Tell me, what was it like to send yourself into the light that night?
 Reva, thereafter
 Up to the rafters
 Up through the plaster
 Up through the highest beams, I will
 Sing of your wonder
 In a voice like thunder
 Sometimes your heart bursts at its seams