Summer Words

With its eager magic

Summer spurned us

Into each other's arms 

Then in an instant 

Summer burned us 

Leaving us dizzy

With its heat 

Faint and weak 

We stumbled forward

Blindly

Throats too dry to speak

What were we now 

In this moment

Brittle, broken spirits 

Words were tinged 

With the smoke 

Of broken promises 

And we begged

Silently 

For the shelter 

Of clouds 

To bear this sun 

For the gift 

Of rain 

To cleanse 

renew 

revive 

This love 

We thought we'd known 

We prayed 

For the days 

Before we had run 

Foolishly into this summer 

For the nights 

When breezes kissed 

Our skin with the spring

Of love 

The soft buds of love 

We reached out 

To each other 

In hopes 

Of finding that place 

But the summers 

Were too much 

And we burned

So quickly

That

We never 

Reached our fall