The jazz winds curl the evening
the balcony breathes wine;
your laugh is like a lantern
hung on the edge of time
A painter down the alley
throws violets at the sky;
we taste our youth in echo
and let its flavor fly
We don’t discuss tomorrow
we don’t repeat the past;
the moment finds its grammar
too perfect not to last
By midnight music falters
the river finds its flow—
love never asks for forever
it only wants to glow