Urban Love Poem #1

 If I could repaint the world in my very own way.
And redraw the lines that keep us at bay
I'd make it more real, I'd make it more open.
Spirits would heal from hurts that are spoken.
If I could make changes, If I could rewind
The seemingly endless changes of time.
I'd go back to when the living was gritty.
The summer we first fell in love in the city.

The moment was fleeting, the moment was fast.
I live in the present but long for the past
When no one was hurting and we were all good.
That summer we first fell in love in the 'hood.

There was no pressure, I knew you were willing
As we fell in love in that tenement building.
The homies rolled by in a green Coup de Ville
But nothing they had could give me a thrill.
For I was a penitent, sinner, and saint
Loving your body til I thought I would faint.
I knew that the skin was the way to the soul
That summer  I first let you know how I roll.

But now we're older, supposedly grown.
We live in the burbs in a blue heaven home.
We packed up and left the  North Side behind.
To live in the land of honey and wine.
But life isn't easy, all isn't great.
But we're still real, still staying up late.
I'll never regret it, don't know how  I could,
The summer we first fell in love in the 'hood.