Crest

The constructs

Of love and death

At different degrees

Who was there

And how long it

Took you to stop

Trying to forget them

And put them in

Your open Pandora’s box

Fulfill on the stroke

Of one wish, two to go

As if you only had one

Upon the thousands

Of things to say

Hearts to pay

With forgiveness

Silly children pushing

To be forgiven

On playgrounds where

We all chased girls

And girls chased boys

Where we faced our

Roles we played

And kept the friends

We made

Like the bounds

Of love and death

We pushed out and in

With every breath

Every whisper of yes

Over the balconies

Stretch over crests

Never, can our hold

Be ever forgotten

It’s what wishes for us

Have gotten