That Summer

That summer you were everything.

That summer you were mine.

We held hands as lovers do

Without the strings and twine.

That summer we went everywhere

Across town, up and down.

I’ll always cherish memories

And cherish those around.

We shared a special thing that year

They cannot take that back.

To me, you guys were everything

When everything was black.

Your feet outside my window

It’s burned into my brain

ODing on caffeine pills

Getting busted in the rain.

We had our youth and health back then

We took it all for granted.

Our views of life were so naive

So centric yet so slanted.

If only I could go back to

The way things used to be

I’d do it in a second and

My soul would then be free.