ocean calm and rain away
the poetry is inside me today
my heart beats thrice to pray
and the summertime takes me away
the breeze is here but she’ll leave by noon
only sunny days and afternoon haze on replay
happiness knocks at the door but she doesn’t always like to stay
she says she’ll find me another day
as the love of my winter fades
i’ll sit and sharpen my blades
preparing for the moment
where i’ll park along the bay
watching the girl with the crooked bangs
and a gap between her two front teeth
she’ll laugh and play in my mistakes
and this time i won’t make her wait
i’ll leave behind the thought of yesterday
i’ll grab her hand and show her my plate
she’ll ease the burden and she’ll say we will be okay
but until then we must live with the grey
so to our summer showers
and our hair in the wildflowers
becoming one we could say
maybe this may
or maybe next November
no love poems to old romancers
just a dance
with Lulu on grass and ants in the cracks
eating the sweet sticky sugar of my baby in black
taking me back
in time
to the summers of wine
and compromise.
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