Already Fading Fast...to the first official day of summer vacation

I began writing this earlier before interruptions drew the beginning of the beginning past middle-day...

I do not want to forget you

The way you teased the air

With song of bird and daylight stirred

From midnight’s onyx stare

Or how you bent to wake me,

Your whisper played the grass

A violin; your slow half-grin

Like lover to his lass

Oh, I want to remember

Your summer-azure eyes

Fraught with allure and passion pure

As Eden’s paradise

And I don’t want to render

To voracious Past

Sensations of youth and first love

Already fading fast

Oh, let me lean into you

Like trees against the sky

And let the breeze my want acquiesce

Its mentor-ship, a sigh

I want to keep forever

The ‘skip-a-heartbeat’ bliss

And savor slow the hold-let-go

Of noon’s shade-dappled kiss

And I don’t want to suffer

The waning of your thrill

Or the romance of our first dance

…but I know I will

© Janet Martin