Summer Solstice

The Summer Solstice has come and gone

as we approach now the Autumn months, 

that longest daylight turning early to night

and the morning sleeping in under its covers

of darkness pulled tight, tucked under its chin,

quiescent in the lengthening of time slowed down;

and Winter’s Solstice following close upon us.

And so it is with our lives, our own Summer

Solstice behind us and the approach of Autumn,

resting in the lengthening of our lives, slowed down.