Reigned In Too Early

Anonymous whispers, blowing secrets, softly blown air through lips, syllables like sidelong glances down cafeteria tables, avoid directness, avoid contact, see, girls nearly women don’t speak of love in the same sentence as sex, girls in tight jeans, hair slicked certain, lips rosebud red, tight, mouths moving, practiced phrases of shared intimacies, lowly blown secrets lying between each other, between the legs of their lovers, fast fleeting moments of heated fluid, banging winding paths toward popularity. girls nearly women, see in me your truth, the ineffective no, the bruised and unwhole, the wild youth reigned in too early.