We’d hook pinkies
And promise
BFFs forever
Because an extra forever
Never hurts.
We’d hook pinkies
And promise
To keep secrets
Guarded at our heart
With our lips a (gullible) security guard.
We’d hook pinkies
And promise
That friendship bracelets meant
More than an hour
And some thread.
We hook pinkies
And it’s a promise
We don’t say out loud
Call it what you want
Take it as you want
I think
It’s love.
It never happened
that everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
but if it did it would have been
lying in the grass
the kind that surrounds you like the ocean
and flows like a river
We have something to learn from
(the toddler who smiled
while he peeled his banana
and ate it in five bites
and gave us all high fives)
(the lady with orange glasses gray hair
Raincoat like the petals of a sunflower hangs to her knees
Glittery rainbow headband
That only keeps half her hair back
Shiny pink nails
Strawberry boots
Shy smile that makes you feel lucky you got to see it
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