Imprint

I stare at where we once sat

Under the canopy

Enveloped in each’s other arms

Immerse in churning qualms

As summer rain wets our lips

In anticipation of our first kiss

We sat and reminisce of happier times

Laughing with green glittered eyes

Wondering why this cannot be our eternity

Love, laugh and play

As fairies in a midsummer day

Flitting in a space of perpetual continuity

But scatting words curbed our promiscuity

That reminded us of how things became coarse

Why we cannot be nothing more than a flashback

Cautioning us never to reverse

Our souls bare and beastly

Are torn when we reveal briefly

The essence of our being

That’s mangled but glimmers sweetly

That lures weary travelers

To rest and take hearth

But chases away once the flame is swallow

Back into the earth

Despite the want to love

We wonder if it is better up above

Beyond the canopy of our green stars

Where summer rain drips

Coating our longing lips

Alas a choice was made

The stump lays bare

Except an imprint

That we were once there

And a canopy of green stars

That ceases to glimmer forevermore