words by dominic riccitello

i follow the steps you left
on a summer side midnight
i caress
you’re shaken and i’m shallow
in depth with waves i can’t pull through

we’re diving and i’m 32
do you know what this feels like?
to be everywhere but with you
i shake to feel sullen blues
shades of 22
your mind and i
contested in bright lights
twists between then and this

you dive like midnight
shadows of corners
from the break of daylight
i can still smell the coffee beans from tuesday morning
we revel in a type of madness
one with twists
another with bittersweet bliss

we reminisce in moments to feel something
thoughts of becoming
i can’t tell you why
yet i recall your mind
those tired eyes
deep fires of our midnight

we turn in our desires
switching between haywire and gunfire
to feel a sort of bliss
we become stuck in abyss
to taste fuel of what was
that is no longer what is

how it felt to be 22
words by dominic riccitello