The first time.

Was a hot afternoon

The last day of June

The sun was a demon

 

The clouds were afraid

One ten in the shade

And the pavement was steaming

 

I told Billy Ray

In his red Chevrolet

I needed time for some thinking

 

I was just walking by

When I looked in her eye

And swore it was winking

 

She was thirty-one and I was seventeen

I knew nothing about love, she knew everything

I sat beside her on the front porch swing

And wondered what the coming night would bring

 

The sun closed her eyes

As it climbed in the skies

And started to swelter

 

The sweat trickled down

The front of her gown

I thought it would melt her

She threw back her hair

Like I wasn't there

She sipped on a Julep

 

Her shoulders were bare

And I tried not to stare

As I looked at her two lips

 

Then she looked at me, I heard her softly say

"I know you're young, you don't know what to do or say

But stay with me until the sun has gone away...

And I will chase that boy in you away."

 

Then she smiled

And we talked for awhile

Then we walked for a mile to the sea

We sat on the sands, and a boy took her hand

But I saw the sun rise as a man

 

Done