I Found You in Summer

It seems a lifetime since that summer day

Perhaps I sought myself in the cobblestones

Baked by the sun and worn by the decades

Of happy pairs and those who passed alone

In the heat of the sun and threat of rain

You were wading in the sea of people

And through that eternal ocean you came

A storm of the hostile and the peaceful

Your eyes - the color of the sky before

The tumultuous roar of the tempest

They tempt me with love like waves on the shore

Crashing, consuming love of the reckless

And though you did not yet hold me captive

It’s by your eyes that I was distracted