Summer Love
Now winter’s come
I like to hum
and sometimes sing a tune
To bring to me
memories
of times we had last June
When I gave you
some summer love
beneath the night’s white moon
Recall we were
beside the shore—
a woman, and a man
Who held her firmly
next to him
on blankets made of sand
Your eyes on mine
were soft and kind
as you pressed against my hips
And the stars above
bright with love
as we tasted with our lips
The waves rolled in
and in the din
we danced a while
Afterwards
we had no words
but silence and a smile
As eye to eye
beneath the sky
we shed our clothes and hugged
Our bodies stark
in the dark
nakedly we loved
The morning smiled
on clothing piled
aside our makeshift bed
And was no talk—
I’ve often thought
of things I might have said
While rapt amazed
I gazed
at the woman I should wed
But now like summer
you are gone—
my winter lingers on
And midnight brings
a pain to things
my heart has felt too long
