Agile Acrobat

Today begins a new school year in Canada, 

and though the calendar says its still summer

for a few more weeks, 

summer always feels officially over when school begins!

My prayers are for lots of tots and parents this morning 

as many weather tides of

fears and tears 

of letting go etc...

Sometimes I pinch myself

at how once upon a time 

The Summer of Life seemed to stretch

endlessly ahead!

Now I turn to see its 'eternity'

 as nothing more than a splash of sun-sparkles

on a sea-swept shore...

Time winks and whisks another summer into memory books

As sentimental mothers gaze with fond and lingering looks

At days that sweetly, swiftly swept through outstretched hearts and hands

To join their predecessors kept in bygone’s far-flung lands

Time winks and weeps where wonder thunders beneath our skin

No wish or want can keep at bay the future closing in

Where all the while new day beguiles with new moments released

Like quilt patches in Bygone’s counterpane, each one is pieced

Time winks and weeps and flies and tries to fit us with new shoes

That life insists upon and no one is ready to choose

(How in the whirl of little boys and girls did I become

A strange, yet splitting image of a version of ‘me mum’) (my mom)

Time winks and weeps and flies and leaps, an agile acrobat

That balances on heartstrings and bows as he tips his hat

While we gather our bearings with a trembling chin held high

Bracing Ourselves for love’s next round of hello and good-bye

…while oceanic tempests surge and crash on shores unseen

While we gaze in amazement at where summer’s isle had been

While time winks, weeps, and flies and leaps across echo-glossed bars

While we brush summer from our cheeks in a blur of salt-stars

© Janet Martin

Grand-sonny- 1st day of SK!💖