kill devil thoughts

i had necessities i'd never need -
an intention never met.
we were picked up and put in motion
to a somewhere we never went.
the road was long and lonely
but i had hope there by my side,
a cantaloupe for your thoughts
and a peach for mine.

there were fireworks in the darkness
set off by blistered fumbling hands
our silhouettes huddled together
illuminated on kill-devil sand.
so we left our trash and set back
on that path to the car
and re-traveled that road
on which we'd come so far.

later we were back at that place -
near to the beginning
but not in the same space.
once again coupled and deeply breathing
but the fireworks just weren't there
i whispered into your slumbering ear,
"thank you.
this is what my dreams were made of."