Just Twilight

All the firsts I want to remember were with you.

From the summer when I was eighteen and knew nothing to the summer when I turned thirty-one and learned so much.

Even the seasons without you felt like you were deeply ingrained.

“We’re just friends, so there’s nothing special between us.”

You pushed me away with a poker face, but because we were friends,

I endured those countless days,

and it seems you still don’t know it.

So, it looks like I’m going to repeat the same futile effort.

“Did I ask if you needed a man? If you do, I’ll be your man.”

You need to get to know the thirty-one-year-old me.

If you look at me with those eyes you didn’t see before.

“You’ve become a real troublemaker.”

Now that you’re here, it’s just the beginning of .