We scaled onto the school’s steep roof after dusk on warm summer nights
We sipped our first beers, our smokes aglow in the town’s tattling lights
We formed lifelong bonds—giggling, fleeing the party-crashing police
We lost our virginity in that scenic slice of pure teenage peace
One night we climbed
Down together
And we never
Climbed
Back
Up
This is fantastic. The visual diminution of the last five lines is like the time of youth running out.