Summer's Leave!

How taut the clouds with Summer tears
now spill upon the arid grass
to quench the colour of palest green
amid loud and confident thunderous sass

Nature speaks and calls the tune
where beaches quiet to echoes of play
as a lone seagull hovers in freedom breeze
to reap random remains of Summer fun lay

The heat that kissed the barest skin
now filters to a cooler say
where flesh in search goose pimples raise
till next year now happy skin to splay

In bittersweet essence of Summer recall
a longing to linger in holiday bliss
though jobs and schools now bellow to heel
reality strikes and to Life's needs we kiss

Still in the heart each Summer remains
a beating warmth to minds and bones
as time once trod upon Summer sands
gladdens the Soul and to each Winter atones

Then as the Sun sets to shorter days
where new air bristles in a chilly weave
thoughts now embrace an Autumn turn
and bid a fondest farewell to Summer's leave!