Four Verses About Summer

Four verses about summer, written in a time of reflection.

I just want to belong somewhere

Because all this talk is deeply impersonal

The human touch isn’t enough if not much

And this life is just one long rehearsal

For the time well wasted in the passing days

Stuck stood in a place that I hate

Watching water and swear drip through a hairnet

And get me right in the face.

Something about summer I watched in some movie

Where kids could just go and be kids

Is far from the dream that I live in it seems

Where I’ve sat in the corner and hid

Yesterday’s woes are a miniscule dose

Of the bittersweet taste in my mouth

What some money might bring has a powerful sting

In the tail, when the fun runs out.

The moment may come if I push hard enough

But the world always seems to push back

And the darkness that comes at the end of the day

Is tinting my mind’s sky black

To feel nothing at all is a feeling of sorts

When the burnout kicks in and I flop

I cling onto hope with a velveteen rope

And the slip becomes so hard to stop.

When happy days come, and I sit on the beach

And enjoy my own space for a while

I can timelessly be looking out at the sea

With a small justifiable smile

When the autumn sneaks back and my head starts to drop

With the weight of what lies right ahead

Now that I’m older, looking over my shoulder

I should probably be cheerful instead.