Fellow

 

(my youngest skipping rocks in the rockies)

A Tricky Fellow

Days grow long

you start having fun

time feels never ending.

You play, you rest

you do your best

to live in the moment you're spending.

Laughing and learning

growing, exploring.

That's what summers are for.

Watching, loving

every moment absorbing

soon it will be no more.

Back to school

oh what a fool!

To think time would stand still.

Allowing me

the time I need

to drink and get my fill.

My kids, my heart,

soon to part

back to the daily grind.

I must embrace

these last few days

as summer must unwind.

Time I tell you

is a tricky fellow.

You think you have forever.

Instead he calls

upon us all.

Summer's end arrives with fervor.

To this I say,

"Enjoy these last days

of rock tossing and sleeping in,

until next school year end

when time once again becomes friend

and another magical summer begins."

~ Lynn Retzlaff