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Sun kissed Dreams

It started hot and passionate and blinding.

Then it ran,

ran from me

faster than the alpine highway or

an Afro over your cute lisp.

 

And a bus leaves for 13 colonies and 14 days and

pictures are all I have.

Colorful but in

50 shades of grey.

Then never a breath from you

on the home front.

And disappointment marks my eyes.

 

Running all over town with eyes

like video cameras and

minds like a metal detector.

We wish we could be a fly on the wall or a plant in the earth or a new hair on your chin.

All moments,

every moment,

we know.

My fiend.

Detect this on your police detector.

Little blue Honda that looks tan in the sun.

 

White Camry.

Up the street then back down.

Serpentine through the neighborhoods

hoping to see a familiar body,

but not be seen ourselves.

Every day

till July 15.

Then waving goodbye to an empty house I once knew.

Where I stayed too long and talked too much about nothing.

Too many memories to remember and flash before my heart.

Then I blink and they're gone and we've passed it.

 

And finally I've mimicked Taylor Swift

and wrote a song about Paris.

And boys in Montreal.

Late hours. Early hours.

All hours.

Spent engulfed in our own music from our minds.

 

Military men. Marines that cheat and break hearts.

not enough sleep.

Lots of tire on asphalt.

Up and down and up and down and back again.

Not enough French

and a brand new white iPhone.

 

And the sun sets on another day

and still the one thing I want

doesn't go my way.

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