Sunburned skin

Oh, how you blistered under such heat

As if the sun itself could not take its gaze away from our joy

Or perhaps it mocked us

For how we laughed outside

When we did not know there was a reason

we were sent to play

Will you remember how our bones did not ache?

Or how our pains were something so much more external?

How I explained away my heartbreak

As growing pains

Carrying the weight of someone much

Much older

On the shoulders of a bird

Forced to become the shoulders of a giant