The Summer They Really Lived

Before Martha, we let ourselves be defined but what others saw us as and didn't try to change it. We went with the motions, where ever they may have taken us. Charlie had Delilah and Delilah had Charlie. We had each other and that was it. But she showed us how to break out of our shells, even though it came with the price of pain and humiliation, but that was *after* Martha. It happened when summer started and Martha was gone. For good. But summer break was three months long. That gave us three months to accomplish what she wanted us to, three months to leave their opinions in the dust, three months to become something bigger than an empty mindset and worthless label. Really, we had three months to live.