fourth of july - julia vu

they say you were made from hand-spun

daydreams and bottled up electricity, that

your smile made the skies blush twilight, that

stars fell for the wonders in your eyes so

sanguine they glowed hickory. i saw my

future flash in a field of snow fallen

silent. but you

rue the night

our lips met

in the backseat of your best friend’s corvette

under the cover of the silver-twined clouds.

we ignited like fireworks, a scathing whirlwind

romance turned inferno; my sunshine, i

didn’t know i was so flammable. i had

never fallen lovesick, i had only ever fallen

moonstruck,

fallen so hard for the ones i love that i

cease to function. we watched my body

disappear in clouds of smoke and sparks,

before you left me to deal with the

ashes and phenylethylamine of

what was once

forever?