Souvenir/To Remember
Je me souviens innocence, but not what it feels like anymore.
Just that first french kiss, enough to do my childhood in.
Tu te souviens buying your first bra.
Unsure of whether to wear it or not.
Confused about the clasp and all its pregnant meaning.
Il se souvient collecting kisses blown from his mother.
Storing them in mason jars covered in stickers.
Elle se souvient picking watermelon from her daddy's garden.
Rolling them inside when they weighed more than her.
Nous nous souvenons keeping secrets from our loved ones.
Waiting for God to punish us.
Living with the guilt that followed.
Vous vous souvenez a time when the appendix was not just vestigial.
Remember a time when you did more than med school.
Ils se souviennent the night they met.
On a segregated 8th grade dance floor.
Their cheeks red from all that not asking.
Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 10:25 PM UTC
Souvenir/To Remember
Je me souviens innocence, but not what it feels like anymore.
Just that first french kiss, enough to do my childhood in.
Tu te souviens buying your first bra.
Unsure of whether to wear it or not.
Confused about the clasp and all its pregnant meaning.
Il se souvient collecting kisses blown from his mother.
Storing them in mason jars covered in stickers.
Elle se souvient picking watermelon from her daddy's garden.
Rolling them inside when they weighed more than her.
Nous nous souvenons keeping secrets from our loved ones.
Waiting for God to punish us.
Living with the guilt that followed.
Vous vous souvenez a time when the appendix was not just vestigial.
Remember a time when you did more than med school.
Ils se souviennent the night they met.
On a segregated 8th grade dance floor.
Their cheeks red from all that not asking.
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