Smitten / rosalie a. richards

Another year, another love.
Oh wait, nevermind. It’s just you again.
Fallen for you again, Summer.
You charm me with your wide, t o o t h y grin,
promise me warm days, fat white clouds,
sand between_my_toes.
Cast a Lazy Spell over my world,
Harry Summer,
giving everything around us some sepia-tone lovin’.
You were always generous like that.
I float in your foamy waves,
drifting tall in those delicate bubbles
of higher thought.
Happily suffocated by your smell,
suntan lotion and saltsweat
and sweet free air
The taste of you, mmm, ice-cream, chlorine and
skin of all colors. Heat
in my belly, that drunken burn,
bitter adrenaline speeding
fast
through my veins like highway traffic
zoom zoom, watch out.
Then you leave me.
Quite suddenly, unexpectedly. Leave me,
your heat lingering,
but your scent
fading,
your magic spell wearing off.
I cling to what we had, desperate for your love,
but you pay me no mind. You
dance out of my grasping reach,
flitter away
as if you were not here, ever,
no, sorry, but
I don’t know who you’re talking about.
I’ll remember you on the day
I find sticky melted sweets
in the pockets of my alldayeveryday shorts
Melding my fingers together like our days together
Rainbow of tangy memories stuck in unidentifiable clumps to shreddin’ denim
Tiny threads of self torn
away left
behind.
Never even realize what I’ve forgotten til I remember.
Then I’ll sit and wait for you
to sweep me away on your carpet again,
no clouds over sea, me head over heels
You’ll take me to that long summer day, to that night that never lasts forever.

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