Chocolate Chips & Coke Cans

Know this, even now,

Salt from my tears

Drip

To my dry, cracked lips—

Digging up feelings

From a well

So deep

I can’t see its end.

How did things

Get this way?

Say …

Do you recall

The good times

Of sunsets & sand?

Chocolate chips &

Coke cans?

The day we walked

down that path,

Near the woods …

When you laughed,

& the birds chirped.

Like they got the joke,

Too. … Do you

Remember?

Then summer ended,

& we said, “Goodbye.”

“See you next year.”

But

We never did.

Didn’t write.

Or call—

At all.

Even now, these many years later,

Salt from my tears

Drip

Down my face, to my lips—

Stirring up feelings

From a well

So deep

I can’t hear its end.