Summer melts away
like a soft serve
Neopolitan
ice cream
cone upon
your lips
then mine,
and today
greets you
like a taste
that is
new,
and
it's taste
releases
old tired
tears to be
forgotten,
like adolescent
nursery rhymes
that your
mother sang
to you.+
that were
your everything
for awhile.
but now you
are awake
and life is
everything
before you,
and the morning
like a new
lover breaks
before my
eyes.