White Coat

Eight years of midnight lamplight Pressed into one white coat The kitchen table disappeared beneath your flashcard stacks Anatomy at Christmas dinner, coffee gone to black We learned to whisper through exam weeks, learned the names of bones You carried med school on your shoulders — never once alone Every time the doubt crept in You studied through it anyway The white coat fits you now Like it was sewn from all those sleepless years Every page, every fear Stitched into the sleeves somehow We always knew, and now the whole world sees The white coat fits you now The night before your boards you called and said you couldn't breathe We told you what we always have: just put your hand to what you believe And when they read your name today, your grandmother stood first She said, "That's our healer walking" — and the whole row's eyes were rivers The hands that shook through practice sutures Will steady someone's worst day The white coat fits you now Like it was sewn from all those sleepless years Every page, every fear Stitched into the sleeves somehow We always knew, and now the whole world sees The white coat fits you now Someday a stranger's family will thank God you stayed the course They'll never know the flashcards, the loans, the longest nights But we will — we were there The white coat fits you now Like it was sewn from all those sleepless years Every page, every fear Stitched into the sleeves somehow We always knew, and now the whole world sees The white coat fits you now Go heal the world, doc You already healed our waiting