i was seventeen, salt on my skin she poured two drinks with a crooked grin said “float with me, let the whole world spin” i said “yeah… i could disappear in this” mint on her lips, lime on her breath laughing like we didn’t believe in death waves rolled slow like they knew what’s next we were too high just to second guess she was my midnight mojito sweet burn down my ego too young to read the sign between divine and decline still drunk on time faith and crime in the gulf of mɛ̀(h)-he-co shine she was my midnight mojito i still feel her in the salt air breeze like she never left, just lives in me said “don’t chase it, just let it be” i said “i’m already gone, don’t rescue me” came back later, same old shore same low echo i felt before wind still hums like it did before like her voice got caught in the roar found our lighter in the sand below rusted out but it held that glow took one drag, felt the current slow like the night still won’t let me go she was my midnight mojito sweet burn down my ego too young to read the sign between divine and decline still drunk on time faith and crime in the gulf of mɛ̀(h)-he-co shine she was my midnight mojito she said “love don’t ask, it just takes what it needs” like the ocean don’t care who you used to be every mark she left still hums in me like salt in a wound that won’t quite leave now i sit where the shoreline bends order two drinks for ghosts and friends mint still crushed in the glass i tend some things fade but they never end maybe someday when the tide runs low i’ll see her face in the undertow raise my glass to that afterglow to the girl i still don’t outgrow she was my midnight mojito sweet burn down my ego too young to read the sign between divine and decline still drunk on time faith and crime in the gulf of mɛ̀(h)-he-co shine she was my midnight mojito maybe love just rolls away like waves that never really stay i still drift there in the grey where her taste won’t fade away
