Hot like the afternoons When you kiss her on the mouth. Locked on the common ground You won't say you love me now. Cooled by the waterside I'll just wait till you find out. Pressed up against my door You'll just say "he's different now." He dissolved like the blood That you had called for on my afternoons. You were right all that time To feel like nothing you said made a difference. Hot like the summer night When your brother went to state. Framed in the parking lot You left all the things you hate. Laid down across my lap You said "do I still calm you down?" Promised a later day That just spilled out of my mouth. & I lost my phone in that summer water The night your brother left town, & I could feel your hands move through that river Across my chest for the last time.