By the Water's Edge-


We sit on a hard bench,

Under an immaculate wooden sun,

In the angry furnace-like wind,

Next to cold, sparkling water.

You smile brightly, eyes dim,

As you light another cigarette.

The scent envelopes me

Like a lovers last caress.

I watch your face as you smoke.

I watch your slender, awkward hands,

Your hazy malachite eyes,

Your lips- enviable pink are held prisoner

Between slightly uneven white pillars.

I watch you as the water shifts-

You move in time with the flow,

Languorously slow; you sit,

Tapping your box to a rhythm

From which I am again excluded.

I sigh, shifting my attention

To something, anything else.

An old lady passes by us,

Glaring at you for, supposedly,

Corrupting such a sweet girl.

"Such ignorance," I mutter.

You laugh so hard,

So loudly, the cigarette sitting forgotten

In your hand.

She hurries past

On small shuffling feet,

You are dangerous,

She believes. I smile.

She has absolutely no idea

How right that assumption is.

We sit on a hard wooden bench

Under a liquid sun

In a cold, uncaring wind

Next to thick, murky water.

I smile dimly,

Eye's bright, laughing

As I lean over you

And steal your cigarette.


About a month after I met Tyler, we were sitting next to the Cape Fear river, he was smoking and I was observing. HahaH. This is what I came up with... What do you guy's think? ( every other line is supposed to be indented twice, but ff won't let me do it... Aargh!)