Verano

A Poem by

Haikus inspired by what summer means to me, all because I couldn't fall asleep last night.

Summer breeze blows on
Its heat penetrates my chill
Til we meet again

The best memories
Exist only in July
As sweet warm honey

Time to shed my skin
Flying home I die again
Winter can begin

So soft are your lips
Whispers linger here as I
Lay awake in bed

I walk every street
Knowing no one knows me here
Still better than home

The warm seasons are
All I live for; am I dead
The rest of the year?

And I can feel them
Spirits, coming to find me
Taking me over

The sun makes me limp
Sleepy muscles, brownish gold
Feeling beautiful

I resemble myself
When my freckles reappear
Still forever young

No reason to sin
But it gives me the excuse
To get lost with you

Cover me with enough
Kisses for me to bring home
Until the next year

If I feel upset
I think of how you kissed me
And nobody else

Foreign love affair
Do you still replay the times
Our eyes displayed lust?

Silent language of
Our hands, forbidden to touch
Beneath the tables

I think I love you
Was what I said when I knew
I had found the one

I still can't find sleep
Ever since I left your side
I haven't slept the same

Trust me, it still hurts
To ignore my gut instinct
We belong as one

Let me rest in peace
Don't ever come back, I will
Not get up next time

Spend all nine months here
Waiting for life to again
Open at the close

I like who I am
There more, pretending that I
Never left at all

You are my Sunshine
That makes me happy again
When Snowflakes return