The Summer We Never Lost

Your name still lives between the pages

Of a book I never finished.

Every pressed flower, every faded note

Feels untouched by time.

We were young enough to believe

That August would never end.

Counting stars from the rooftop,

Making forever with borrowed time.

I don't remember every word you said.

I don't remember every place we went.

But I remember

How the world felt different

When you smiled at me.

You were my first hello,

My first heartbeat out of time.

The first person who made forever

Feel close enough to find.

Though the years have carried us

To different skies above,

Somewhere inside my memories...

You'll always be my first love.

Sometimes a familiar perfume

Stops me in the middle of the street.

For a second, I'm seventeen again,

With your hand reaching for mine.

Life has written newer chapters,

Different faces, different dreams.

But no one can rewrite the pages

Where you first taught my heart to dream.

Maybe we weren't meant to last.

Maybe we were only meant to begin.

Because every love I found after you

Still carried a little courage

From the day you taught me

What love could feel like.

You were my first goodbye,

The first tear I couldn't hide.

The first lesson that love

Can stay, even after it leaves.

If we pass each other someday,

I won't ask to turn back time.

I'll just smile...

Knowing you became

The most beautiful beginning

Of my life.

Some people become forever...

Not because they stayed.

But because they were

The first to change your heart.