Is It Really Goodbye: Summertime Blues
Is It Really Goodbye
Summertime Blues
Are you leaving?
Because it feels like you already have.
You’re distant now, cooler than before, and though it feels like you’re here to stay, you keep fading, as though you have somewhere to go. Are there others, other than me with whom you dance and tease with your warm, kissing breath?
Can you remember the long days and the warm nights we shared? It seemed so permanent and like it would last forever. Running in the waves and digging my feet into your warm sands; and then watching the sky as the puffy white clouds that changed shaped in mere minutes dissolved into starlit nights. The laughter when birds in flight would marry in mid swoon and again rise higher than before, and do it once more?
And the breezes, how can they slip away? So gentle, almost to tap my cheek and hold my hand to say “Don’t worry My Love, I’ll never leave.” And now it really feels like you’re almost gone.
Gone? Or just retreating? You cool off and then you come back with such intensity, with such loving and embracing beauty that I’m sucked into your centrifugal force. Now again you turn away without a word, and leaving broken promises of longer times together.
Am I surprised? Not really. You have done it so many times that now I’m the fool for believing it can last. Taking your brilliant light and your enthusiastic energy that wakes me each morning to a day f hope and creation.
No, I guess you’ve gone.
The light is dimmer. Your touch is fainter. The taste of your rainbow diminishes with each day.
I love you. Goodbye Summertime and I’ll be here waiting when you decide to return to me.
Michael J. Herman is a Professional Writer, Motivational Speaker, and Coach.