"Endless Somer?" [Reflections on Book - Right Side Up Side Down Romeo Lemieux and Connie Bischoff re:Endless Summer]
Delightful tale of boyhood romps abroad,
Across the fields of nature’s summer sod
To cooling sloughs – the contrast then as now
Between those days, and tales which school allowed.Is Somer endless? Or quite finite – viewed
As wife of friend, with skills and gifts renewed
In summer time of married life – it seems
These days are endless – “This is what life means”.But autumn comes – with stories written new
In clumsy script with Somer’s days now viewed
From autumn’s place, for winter’s bleak repose
Removes such friendship – parting each man knows –For “Once we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow”,
Like soldier now – felt sun kiss eyes to know
New life once times of such transition years
Are passed forever with its vale of tears.Two feet, once bare, step up to conflict’s scene;
Young soldiers know, as well as those who’ve been
Confronted with the evil side of life,
“Gray frost” indeed ’till Somers melt our sight.Once-cryptic phrases scratched on autumn piece,
“My Somer-time” – from which I’m now released
To give through autumn’s colored time, then snow
Of aging hair which weakened bodies know.Lord, as we move to here from yesterday,
Release the grip of tales of fantasy
To take up life, now in these days of joy,
Engaged in work, each gift now full-employed.Thanks Lord for this.
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