(no subject)
[written july twenty second of this year, titled 'i remember', at a time when i believed i could return after one and a half months away from everything i knew and nothing would have changed between all of us.]
by september twenty first
i knew nothing else
but the exact shade of your eyes
a sparkling sapphire tinted with romance
i loved to look at
and when you watched me
i felt your eyes
boring into my head
searching my soul
turning it a deep shade of pink
the color I’d blush if I wanted to
but you never made me uncomfortable
so I wouldn’t.
i stood on the deck out back
made of newly stained wood the color of a maple
smooth as silk because the boards were new
and I would sway in the soft spring breeze
outside because you always insisted
we dream in the open
you would wrap me up in yourself
your words the tightest jacket I had ever worn
and sipping slightly bitter lemonade
every syllable that rolled off your tongue
i swallowed like pink starburst.
i couldn’t get enough of you.
as if that wasn’t enough
i remember when you left that day
you bit the top of my ear and told me
you’d be back tomorrow
and I actually believed you.
none of this has happened.but i know it will.