The summer heat is heavy on the street We drag our shadows through the melting dust There is no hurry in the way we meet Just quiet breathing and a quiet trust The sun is burning out behind the trees We share the silence and a broken breeze The yellow grass is sleeping on the lawn The afternoon is stretching like a ghost We let the hours slowly bleed till dawn You are the shadow that I need the most No sudden movements in this humid air Just heavy eyelids and your tangled hair The summer dark is falling like a stone We watch the ceiling fan spin slow and bare I am so glad to sit here in the bone And breathe the static of the summer air We melt together in the fading light A slow and quiet fading out of sight
