Summer 2005

Two boys reaching out to others

To have an unforgettable summer

A girl on vacation three thousand miles away,

A boy in Georgia spending his nights in lust

Wishing the girl were here, waiting for her return

He passes his time doing illegal activities with his

Friends that have never done these things before

He is the ringleader of the group

He drafts the plans and how the group can get away with them


Another boy only wants to have fun

He has had his heart broken too many times

He does not trust himself or his actions

But his mouth runs his life

He is scared to have a print on his permanent record

But he does illegal things for the attention and

To fit into the crowd even though he feels empty inside

He believes he is a failure, but he pretends to be happy

He tries to stay distant from love and relationships

Too intimidated by others to trust his self


A girl whose mother has cancer

Trying to escape the pain

By engaging in the illegal activities of her friends

She is in love with the heartbroken boy that runs his mouth

Too much but she is too scared to tell him because she

Knows he does not feel the same

She tries to intimidate him with verbal abuse

So that when he does not give her a chance she

Is not too emotionally damaged

She shakes in his presence and values his mystery –

But only because he reminds her of herself


Another girl with curly hair

Lying to her parents in order to go

To the places her friends are at

She’s playing with the hearts of different boys

But one of the best girls they’ll ever meet

She has a hidden secret –

Kept far in her soul

She has a crush on the boy that is

In love with a girl

That is 3,000 miles away

And when that girl is not home

She is the one he calls to talk to for hours on end

She is so attracted to him – a free spirited rebel

Everything she has not had the chance to be

Is reflected in this boy

That she does not want to like

But she cannot help the way she feels –

He is the rebellious flame that

Was never lit in her

She has been too protected throughout her life

This is her summer to let go, have fun

And his rebel actions make her rebellious streak shine





A wonderful summer

Filled with games of hide-n-go seek in Wal-Mart,

Softball, dodge ball, and pool

Backing into poles, baking cakes in the dishwasher,

Camping trips, skinny dipping,

Surgeries, car crashes,

Lying in the street looking at stars, singing along with familiar tunes,

Stealing signs, breaking awnings,

Putting band aids on elbows at

Eleven pm, eating grilled cheese,

Waffle House, and Wendy’s, wrestling in living rooms and on farms,

Phone conversations that last all day or until one falls to sleep

- filled with words or silence,

Trips in the night to Winn Dixie, day time trips to Alabama,

Sharing Doritos,

Laughter, Roman candles wars, bottle rocket

Wars, hiding in barns with no shirt to air dry mud and chase a kitten,

Funny haircuts, stupid concerts that bring on an unexplainable feeling,

Sharing smoothies, stretching shirts, hiding in Atlanta to aggravate each other,

Deflating tires for parking to close to cars, and believing the tires belong to

someone they don't,

Drinking in secrecy, holding hands as not to get lost,

And the end of most friendships


School started and each went his or her separate way

The girl three thousand miles away came back to Georgia

And the boy was happy but the girl forced him to stop

Acting so immature – taking away his best quality by making him

Grow up

He found out the curly headed girl wanted to be with him

But it was too late – for his girlfriend had returned

He is too afraid of her to have feelings for her –

She is too intelligent for him

And he was too intimated by both girls

To say anything to either of them

So he kept it all a secret

Until his girlfriend found out

And that led to an argument

That he could not win

But it does not matter,

As long as “he has his girlfriend”

That will forget him three weeks after she’s gone again




The boy with the big mouth

Began to hang around computer geeks

They have no common sense

He never gave the girl that loved him a chance

And now he’s a labeled idiot

He still knows he is a failure, but

Continues to act as though he is happy





The girl overcame her feeling of failure

By giving up her love with the big mouthed boy

Although love does not disappear,

She has accepted the fact that he’ll

Never understand her feelings

So she put them in a bottle and buried them alive

She now loves her self
She found who she is

Her mother’s cancer is in recession,

But expected to return some day

Fearing the loss of her mother

She now hides pain with anger



The girl with curly hair

Has almost perfected lying

But now does not have to lie about

Much because the group is no longer together

Performing illegal tasks

She’s preparing for college

And she still has the ability to play with boy’s hearts

Although her rebel flame was never lit,

It did sparkle for a moment

And that is the moment

She will always remember

The moment that taught her

She is not a second string

She is not second best,

She is a young woman

That has a great feeling of accomplishment

And when she goes to college,

The boy may end up in jail

And no one will be there to bail him out

But she will not care –

Her rebel flame never burnt,

But her sparkle died out

Four teenagers living through a summer
The summer of freedom,

The summer of lockdown,

The summer that turned girls into women

And men into boys

The summer that taught that no one will always be around

And no matter how much one hates it,

Eventually everyone will change

The summer that changed us all

By pulling us apart

The summer that melted our feelings

And helped our alibis

The summer that is unforgettable

The summer of 2005