Here's To Forgetting - Parenthetical Girls

From the drivers seat I could scarcely eye the street

Your skin was bathed in amber light

And rain streaks

And for the remainder of the ride

You slept silent beside

From cradled heart-shaped cheeks

And legs crossed at the knee

I turned 22 and wrapped in tangled sheets with you

On the unfamiliar floors

Of people that you knew

Now we move far and out of touch

Kill pleasantries in such

And truth be told, I think of you much too much

And once I whispered soft discreet, as you lay beside asleep

Your mouth agape and sweet

With bookends on your knees

And with pressed palms against my eyes

I still see you on that drive

Your face bathed in amber light

As you slept silent beside