Summer Nights With You

A Poem

Photo by Viktor Vasicsek on Unsplash

hey, remember that summer
when we slept under the stars
and thought life would never
catch up and imprison us?

you smelled of the pool —
chlorine and sun, a heady mix —
and it was easy to think
we might have forever like this

you would tangle your fingers
in my hair, pulling just right
while I counted down minutes
till our midnight hour came

hey, remember those nights
when I promised you my all,
and you smiled at me —
for me, only for me?

you didn’t say a thing,
yet I filled in your silence
with secret promises
and their perfect signs

you were the enigma,
the mistake I’d always make,
but I told myself it was okay
because I had you for the moment

I should have known
everything would disappear
by sunrise touching the horizon —
that was you, all the way