What can I say?
What can I write?
Summer’s promise lost its way
alone now, in the dark night.
Midsummer’s over, too.
I know you’re not coming back.
I see your bright smile only in review.
My head and heart can’t believe it’s fact.
The nights come faster this last month.
The days still hot.
We looked for school to be a new routine
in August, but it’s not.
We had so much to do
New goals spinning.
Horses, standing, walking, too.
Summer’s end would only be the beginning.
My boy, my boy
Smiling, laughing and love
You brought everyone joy
Now, it will only come from above.
Life slipped from my hands.
Oh, if only I could change that day,
Your dusky skin turned cool buried those plans.
On a day summer’s promise ran astray.
I don’t know. I don’t know.
What meaning this death.
It leaves me cold as snow.
Ice in my heart.
I don’t have the luxury
to sulk or rage.
Time goes on as seasons be.
I, too, must age.
My heart took some time
To warm for the next child.
I couldn’t do it on a dime.
Not like you, this one’s wild.
Yet, he reaches for my hand.
I see a secret I must unlock
What will lift the band?
I wonder as I leave my shock.
Summer, summer, how fast you slip away
Every year, you start out sweet.
This promise born then goes array.
Will I believe the next summer I greet?