Alibi

Here we are all spun around.

Forgotten relics in the lost and found

Why do you sigh?

Why do you deny?

Were we only ever just an alibi?

My soul laid bare

By your appraising stare.

You’re to have

And mine to share.

I see you baby with a new style on.

You cling to my memory all summer long.

No elegant phrase could fully express,

The taste of your salt laced skin

Beneath that cotton dress.

I now understand there is a space

Between real and true

In with the old

And out with the new.

Awoken from a dream of soft replies

Chasing sleep from the corners of my eyes.

Spin dizzy from your come-hither stare.

But your trade winds baby

Seem to lead me nowhere.

Locked up tight and all squared away.

We are in motion for this constant monochrome play.