Summer Nights

I can't forget the way your lips tasted the last time I saw your face.
Chocolate flavored kisses with an edge of something dangerous, and now it's been too long, and the distance leaves a hollow ache in my chest.
Words like poetry fell like snowflakes from your tongue, saying sweet things I remember only vaguely.

Memories that tease at my mind, waiting for cover of darkness to erupt.
Words flow over the paper, begging for release through my pen. With a kiss goodnight and a wave of your hand, I fell from a cloud of "forever," and longed for more than a hasty "I love you" whispered underneath a jet-black sky studded with diamond stars.

I twirled beneath that open sky, danced into your arms.
The sound of your voice was like a lullaby; in the dizzy darkness of August night, the moon shone off the glassy surface of the water.

And now I remember so clearly the smell of your skin. It's like I'm dancing with you in the dark again.