On a summer night after graduation,
we crowded into a roadside bar,
glasses of beer meeting for the first time.
Golden light swayed in the glass, foam spilling over,
like all the things we never said,
 warming in the night air.
The wind carried the noise away,
the last warmth fading at the bottom of the cup.
All that noise, all that fire—
quietly dimmed with the end of youth.
Time rushed on like a passing train.
In late nights alone,Â
in streets where old friends meet again,
in tents by the sea trembling in the wind—
every soft “psst” of a tab opening feels like a whispered memory.
When bubbles dance on my tongue, I still believe:Â
Beer Fairies aren’t magic—
they’re the one you think of when you’re just a little drunk,
the words you finally say,
and the foam on that glass,
lingering long after the night is gone.