A Thousand Boy Kisses

by Tillie Cole

“I’ll give you a thousand kisses, Poppymin. All of them. No one will kiss you ever, but me.”

Then I cried. I cried for the boy who was my sun. I mourned the boy I once loved with everything I had. I mourned Poppy and Rune—a couple of extreme beauty and even quicker death.

This was why I loved music. Only music had the ability to steal my breath, and give life to the song’s story so flawlessly. So profoundly.