Summer Leaves

June 21, 2013 at 1:31 pm · Filed under Poems, Romance, Sometimes it just hurts ·Tagged fall, love, nervous habits, summer

Here’s the deal; I’ve been on a roll today—wrote three poems—and the words don’t seem to want to stop. I’m in a zone, and you have to run with it when it’s there. This one also inspired by Catherine Ryan Hyde’s, Funerals For Horses. If you haven’t seen my first one inspired by this novel, take a look at it – Pure Madness.

Summer Leaves

 

It’s like someone bending over backward

Being nice to you so you’ll like them

When you already like them anyway

Kellie Elmore’s Free Write Friday prompt

To save them the trouble

And it’s like they know

And you know they know

And they know you know they know

But the game still needs to go on

Because there’s no point arguing

With someone who’s being nice to you

 

Or like when you’re tapping your foot

A nervous habit

You swear you don’t have

And you stop doing it for a moment

So they’ll see it doesn’t mean anything

Then you stare out the window

Like there’s something out there

That does matter

And without looking at them, you say

We won’t always be together, you know

And just like that… summer turns to fall

 

Copyright © C Mashburn

 

I seldom post more than one story or poem a day, but I wrote this one earlier this morning, and Kellie Elmore’s Free Write Friday hit it right on the head, so there ya go.

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