The crackle of fireworks
Bloomed in the air
Wafting tendrils of smoke
Into our delicate faces.
He watched me as I stared up into the sky
My face alight with reds and blues and golds,
Smiling with twinkling eyes filled with wonder.
I glanced at him as he looked at me,
And he came closer,
Cupping my cheek and then
Pressing his soft tender lips to mine
Just as the fireworks burst in the sky
Sending sparks everywhere,
Sizzling the way we were.
We looked up,
Hands held,
And stared at our romance in the sky,
All power,
All passion,
All pure
With heat, smoke, and fire.
The fire that held us
Was burning through the cool night air
Warming us,
Letring us
Fly.
And as we stood there,
We began to realize that nothing really mattered.
It was just us all along.
Just us,
Always
Us.

I found you again
Siting at the park
With discarded roses
At your feet,
Looking for a way to get back to me,
To hold me like you used to.
I'm glad I found you-
You would've never found me,
I was lost too.

because they walk in and they see boy,
                                              they see tarnished future,
                                              they see accidental mistake;

they walk in and they see woman,
                               they see power, too much,
                               they see bare skin,
                               they see beating heart;

they look at her and they see all the reasons why.