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The Ones Who Kept Away

� Chlorine saturated our skin
Mine so sunned
So suited to it's smell
Yours a pasty boy's - seashell

My summer freckles brown, at play
Your eyes were pennies in the day
They drank my swimming sunlit form
You never moved
I was too warm

Left-sided smirks after bright afternoons
Popping chilled cans
In the cool of your room
Almost too charged to stand
Caffeine kicked closeness
And we'd never land
Although you feigned stoic
There was sweat on your hands

And your heartbeat betrayed you
You cool boy
You had heat too
The racing pace of the beating truth
And your expressions toward me
From those incog eyes
Erupting loose

I was a nestling
Freshly bold
Chasing loves to give me hold
And though you saw beyond my shape
Indeed
My soul
You stood so cold

You stayed so cold

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Written some months ago, about a boy some many years ago....