Ask me about our first kiss

and I’ll sing you melodies of intoxication

ask me about the time you called me beautiful

and I’ll shine star bright fireflies into your chest

pound heart beats into your palms

until your hands become pedestals again. . .

until my lungs shatter from holding fistfuls of I miss yous on my breath

and smothering flames of passion inside my throat

Ask me why I loved you

and I’ll let our memories slip off my tongue like raindrops after a summer drought

after months and months of ignoring flashes of happiness and heartbreak,

there is a film strip of images and time and us that will dance against my mind,

fragments that were never strong enough to build a foundation with

but potent enough to keep my love for you living and breathing between the silence of my heartbeats

and the echoes of your name whispering in my loneliness

as much as I told myself to forget

nostalgic rhythms play our fragments in melodies and drum beats that pound consumption

until, eventually

enveloped in your memory,

I surrender.