soundtracking my summer, soft and wistful a teen nostalgia time capsule of angst and wide-eyed innocence simplicity wrapped in pastel softness sugar mice, 99s, Boys Like Girls - how fitting as thunder rolls in to clear the skies for sunny promises and late night kisses undiluted joy with barely mixed *** sweet on my lips and salt at the waistline warming our skin through windows as gulls pepper the soundwaves how magnificent the glory days are reborn, revisited, revitalised with today's knowledge and back then's hope danced and tiptoed and sprinted through to songs of child hearts and dreamer tongues