One Summer

One summer

We crowded into your single bed

And played footsies under a sheet

We put on old superman episodes

And spoke of your future

One afternoon

We plunged into your hot car

Just to listen to music on full blast

Without even leaving the driveway

And I sank

One evening

You told me to look at the shadows

On the stucco ceiling

And you asked if you could kiss me

I said yes

One morning

I was young and hadn’t gone anywhere far

You touched me so soft

And held me so secure

That I couldn’t help but die in your arms

One midnight

You kissed me like I had never been kissed

And sat me down with the mosquitoes

Just to tell me how things felt

You weren’t in love

One summer

I grew up

And thought I really might have been in love with you

And then you left

And I knew I wasn’t