Remember lying side-by-side
In the grass one day in summer,
The way you tried to lean away
From the touch of skin against skin,
Dancing from tantalizing warmth
With your fingers raised to the sun?

And then you reached out, with the sun
Burning your arm on just one side,
Chastising you with rays of warmth
As you stole away the summer.
My eyes could see right through your skin
And burned until you looked away.

Then the day was lost, slipped away
Between the cracked lights of the sun,
Falling fast as you shed your skin
So I could see your darker side.
But you tasted just like summer
And I still revel in its warmth.

You pulled back from the daytime's warmth
And softness to float away,
Away from the heat of summer
And hard-beating rays of the sun
That burned so badly on one side,
Leaving you to peel off the skin.

And here again, skin against skin,
I feel in my rib cage the warmth
Of having you back by my side.
My thoughts and worries flow away
As I stare now into the sun,
Remembering days in summer.

Even at the end of summer,
With grass separating our skin,
I raise my fingers to the sun
To grasp upon some of its warmth,
To just reach up and steal away
The thing that keeps you by my side.

How the summer envies our warmth,
The skins of spring falling away
To show the sun our tender side.