Only For

a very ambiguous poem

meet me by the water

with feet facing black marble
there is a moonlit path draped for us

remember how we scaled the deep for
treasure etched along an ocean floor

of middle school crush sweet
heart innocence and faith

where dreams once had
no intention to age

but lining every year’s failed love
we learn that these treasures were a myth

so we refuse to near the sea
for the wintered waters

chilled our blood, split
the warmth from our hearts

so that when it rains it pours
and when it stops we burn

yet when she looks at me with her chin on my chest

i am swept with confused alarm
and am crushed by fairytales

of shy toes 20 mph prayers
secret kisses confessions and exhales

we forget our fears tho they
leak through the levies

and step forward