summer & symbols
2:20 PMThe type of day when there's no way you're going to let the raindrops fade, so you leave the wipers off and keep on driving because the sun rarely lights them up on your window like this.
Suede shoes that have been on first dates and goodbyes and danced more than one night away.
A night when you don't need to make plans because if you pause to take a breath someone's gonna nail you with another water balloon. And I'm sure there's some poetic symbolism in there, too.
Two full days that turn into one because some people don't disappear as soon as the lights go out.
Initials on a chain from hands you wouldn't have expected.
Truths that sting from lips that only form words worth hearing.
And there's something symbolic about mixing up whose clothes are whose and which car you left your blanket in because maybe you found some people that are pieces of yourself and even if they don't believe in souls I sure do and everyone needs a few old souls and twisted souls and free souls around them.
Especially in the summer.
So don't turn your windshield wipers on baby, let's just keep driving because no one cares as much as we think they do and summer only sticks around when our eyes are open.
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I tried to comment on this a few hours ago, but I guess I didn't click publish. Lol. I love the paragraph about souls and "Summer only sticks around when our eyes are open." The way you phrase things is so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteA night when you don't need to make plans because if you pause to take a breath someone's gonna nail you with another water balloon.
ReplyDeleteyeahh.... Water balloon wars. haha.