Daylight Fireworks for July (a poem)

DAYLIGHT FIREWORKS FOR JULY

by Ériq O Rulo

I always hold on to the nights 

We used to share

But those fireworks we made 

Texting along

Never shined over the back 

Of any hidden place

Never shined to touch your breasts

With incandescent lights

Like a rain of vivid tones 

Warming our souls

Because the sunlight didn’t let us

I was a prisoner by law 

All of the nights were Inquisition

I was married to the sun

Reluctantly we said goodbye

 Fireworks faded

Like fireflies drowning slow 

Into the flames of some old secret

That no one could find.


É.S. 2018