The only way you knew how to dance Was to sway your hips haphazardly Off beat Back and forth Side to side to hazy savage glaringly ***** music I would sit in the passenger seat and watch With the car door ajar and the Seatbelt light blinking The only way I knew how to dance was to close my eyes and visualize the Gospel of the orange and pink and cloud paint splatters And so we were in perfect synchronization Like symphonic harmony My eyes closed but yours wide wide open Not a moment of hesitation between one second of action to the next Except when it came to opening my eyes I would watch you succumb to your assimilated actions And we would welcome The droplets of a newborn rain storm attaching to our clothed backs and bare shoulders Laden across a field We were not allowed to be on this field they had football practice but we were anyways The air was of a room temperature and caressed our fingertips How did we manage to articulate to each other What it feels like to be enveloped in realityβs arms Your hair was almost the Color of mine but your skin was usually a lot Paler But in the summer it would turn bronze When you held up your hand and against The cotton candy sky you looked like A shiny brass statue of a Greek god We thought we were Zeus and Hera but Were Sisyphus and Merope Bare legs meant mosquito bites but They drew satirical constellations across our calves Like a sadist reminder of irony We existed in perfect destruction because The birds had left but The moon had stayed I felt my ragged fingernails frighteningly grasping at The remnants of a pathetic twilight I donβt think I can ever look you in the eye again And then I blinked just once and The sky had turned indigo and the chill of cicadas and summer night set in And I was intrinsically alone with no ***** music and swaying hips and summertime lies Deceit had evaded me but it surrendered to you And with your presence left my respect This celestial ship will carry our mundane bodies back to shore But I tangoed for one And put on my seatbelt and closed the car door