Far-off Nearby or Human-Nature

Poetic Bloomings Prompt day 4: 

use contrast as your title then write something that relates to summer somewhere in the poem

 (the girl in the photo is quite innocent of such storms just yet, 

and I enjoy this calm before the learning-when-to-keep-mum;-)

We are quite different, my dear, you and I

My numbered years with your much younger vie

Yesterday, as if stating something quite new

You declared, 'I’ll never see eye to eye with you'

And I couldn’t help but smile just a little bit

As I recalled the wee while when you used to fit

In the crook of my arms without a fight

Our only battle-line drawn in middle-night

Then I thought these days were far-off as the sky

That waits winter-gray for true-blue of July

While the white storm howls through saplings standing free

Against the jowls of nature in the shelter of full-grown trees

©Janet Martin