this won me a poetry contest irl :3 i'll give you a cookie if you can guess what story it's based on...

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the ocean spread

out from the

shore

mirroring the rippling

blue

of the sky

with the fields at our

backs

and the wind

on our skin

your hand on my

shoulder

mine tangled in your

hair

it felt like forever

even though

hands pressed to hands

only lasts so long

and touches fade

when the sun goes down

i thought

we could have forever

if we went for

swims at midnight

in the swirling, crystal

sea

for rides on dirt paths

the back roads that

suddenly felt new

though i had

traveled them

a hundred thousand times

it felt like forever

when we sat through

breakfasts and

lunches and afternoons

by the poolside

with my fingers on the

strings of a guitar

and the tips of yours

dyed inky

from the pages that you

turned

when we rode into

town

and spent our hours

in bookshops

that i'll never

return to

it felt like forever

when i showed you my

spot

in the trees and the

grass

and my whole world was

tainted

by you

i begged for it to be

tainted

by

you

cobblestones flew

under our feet

and stars spun while we

did

with vodka on our

lips

drunkenly

sweet, spiraling smoke

that flew to the moon

intimate moments that

are lost in the

crooked streets of

summer afternoons that i

can't bear to look back on

but i do

when the train left

it felt like losing forever

and then the call came

and the world stopped

and hollow happinesses

left my lips

to shatter on the

dusty floors of the

room i can't stand anymore

and the flames flickered

before my eyes

dancing, swaying together

like a mirage

reminding me of the

forever

that had slipped out of my

grasp

through grassy fields and

wide open oceans

over bicycle wheels and

peach-painted sunsets

across poolsides and over

silver-chained necklaces

the way ink-stained fingers

had slipped from mine

once

twice

then gone

forever.