Agh, I haven't been able to write much lately. I've got something like a cross between a brain freeze and writer's block. I got this one off the top of my head...
Enjoy :]
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Those light summer days passed
Like apple tart and crème brulee,
The crumbs of which sat on chipped plates
Those light summer days passed
Like apple tart and crème brulee,
The crumbs of which sat on chipped plates
Atop a checkered tablecloth,
Flashing red and white,
Underneath a mango tree,
Which we climbed at our own perils,
Often bargaining a ripe mango
In exchange for a scraped knee.
We bore the pain, as sweet, yellow, juice
Dribbled down our chins
And fell onto the tips of the tall, green grass.
Afterwards, our noses found
The hazy smell of barbecue
That tainted the delicate evening breeze
As we ran, barefoot, in a rowdy game of soccer,
Across overgrown grass and weeds
And occasional sloppy puddles of mud,
Which splattered across our faded jeans;
We screamed in victory even after we lost.
And when we bathed our feet
In the shallows of a rippling pond
We found our shoes waiting faithfully
At the water’s edge
In the night we laid underneath the mango tree
Hand in hand;
We wore mile wide eight year-old grins
And if you looked closely,
You’d find, on the edges of our pink lips,
The crumbs of an apple tart.
And when we sighed contentedly,
You’d find, on our breath,
The sweetness of crème brulee
As it swirled into the summer night air.
The sweetness of crème brulee
As it swirled into the summer night air.
