summer

take great strides,
do not wait.
summer days are long,
weeks and months are brief,
they brighten, wither, fall in time
as every growing leaf.

walking through the seasons,
nowhere else to go
you and me together
no one else to know
we've met the life that is forever
and so, I promise
right until I fall in time -
I will take great strides,
I will not wait.