Golden Days, Wild Nights

I. The Rise of Gold

Beneath the hush of a waking sky,

The morning yawned with golden sighs.

Sunlight spilled on rooftops low,

Warming streets with a honeyed glow.

Barefoot laughter crossed the lane,

Sprinklers spun like summer rain.

Cicadas hummed a lazy tune—

A hymn to June, beneath high noon.

Time forgot to move or care,

Hung suspended in amber air.

Lemonade lips, stories told,

Dreams traded like marbles and gold.

Shadows shrank in fields of fire,

Every heartbeat a small desire.

We raced with wind, we kissed the day,

And let the skies lead us astray.

II. In the Language of Leaves

The trees wore crowns of emerald light,

And whispered poems in the night.

Their branches, like arms, would sway and hold

The promises that heat made bold.

We laid beneath their leafy sprawl,

Heard nothing, yet heard it all.

A breeze would lift a strand of hair—

The touch of someone not quite there.

Between the hum of bees and time,

We drew our names in sand and rhyme.

The world was vast, and we so small,

But oh, how wild to feel it all.

We didn't need a reason why—

Just golden days and open sky.

III. Dusk Is a Poem Itself

And then it came—the sky's soft bleed,

A watercolor blush in need.

The sun, now tired, took its bow

Behind the edge of meadowed brow.

Crickets tuned their twilight strings,

And twilight wrapped its velvet wings.

We gathered where the shadows leaned,

Where time grew slow and light grew lean.

The fireflies blinked like distant thoughts,

Too quick to catch, but never lost.

They danced like secrets never said,

Alive until the starlight spread.

The moon would rise, a borrowed light,

A lantern for the coming night.

IV. Wild Nights Begin

Now came the wild—untamed and true,

Where sky turned dark but spirits grew.

Bonfires licked the edge of space,

And stories found their rightful place.

We sang with voices raw and loud,

Our joy like thunder in a cloud.

Someone strummed a worn guitar,

Each chord a spark, each note a star.

There were kisses, some too brief,

Shared under branches, bold and leafed.

Lips that tasted like cherry wine,

Whispers tangled with moonshine.

Eyes met eyes in fleeting glance,

A thousand years inside a dance.

Hearts beat fast, then beat as one—

The night had just begun.

V. Between Stars and Skin

The universe hung close that night,

As if to feel our fragile light.

We traced Orion with our hands,

Made wishes no one understands.

The wild was not just in the air,

But in the way we didn't care.

We howled at moons we could not reach,

Spoke truths no daylight dared to teach.

Sweat and stardust on our skin,

Both from where the day had been.

We carved our names in midnight’s core,

And begged the sky for just one more.

More second. More fire. More night.

More echoes made in pale moonlight.

VI. Memory’s Glow

Now years have turned like spinning sparks,

Yet I still feel those glowing marks.

That summer lives behind my eyes—

In golden haze and velvet skies.

I still recall the scent of heat,

The burn of grass beneath my feet.

The way the air would seem to bend

When day refused to let night end.

We were young and bold and free,

Living out a fantasy.

No maps. No rules. No guarantees—

Just sunlit love and midnight seas.

And though those days are gone from view,

They burn inside me—ever true.

VII. The Echo of Fire

So when you pass a field in June,

And hear a far-off summer tune,

Or smell the smoke of evening fire,

Remember what those sparks inspire.

For every summer comes and goes,

But some stay burning down below—

Within your chest, where embers sleep,

Where laughter's buried soft and deep.

We lived a thousand lives those nights,

In dreams ablaze with soft delights.

Golden days that felt so right,

And wild, wild, unforgettable nights.

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