We Played Chicken: Notes of an Online Journal

“We Played Chicken”
 
 
There once was a long time before,
When the world was closed off to me.
With each day I’m forgetting more
Of just a while when I was free.
 
The only boy that I would know,
Who knew how to get close, to be
A devil and also angel
To my heart inside he could see.
 
I’d read poetry when I could,
The classics of being in love.
We hid in a shed with the wood,
The loft shedding pigeons above.
 
We spent afternoons chasing cars.
I’d lie together in his arms.
We stayed away from all the bars.
And overslept past the alarm.
 
The clouds came & so too the rain,
I’d want him forever with me.
He laid his bike down in the lane,
My young life adrift out to sea.
 
He was all I ever wanted,
But that was then, it was no dream.
I’d do it again, and haunt him,
And scream like I did on that day.
 
 
 
 
NaPoGloPoWriMo 2019