growing seeds from wilted roses

𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥-𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴

nights on the playground
turned into nights at the bar.
and drinking grape juice in fancy glasses, holding our pinkies up
became drinking red wine out of bottles while tumbling through the crowd.
giggling while wrapping our pinkies to swear that we'd stay together forever and get married
to us sliding silver rings on our fingers to seal a legal bond between us.

when we were kids,
we thought when we grew up,
we'd own a fancy car and a nice house
with a partner and two kids—one boy and one girl—
when in reality, we kept our child-like traditions
and tweaked them
to make us feel as if we had really grown up.