As I Await a Change to Sate
Cool, the breeze that soothes
my aching bones,
from heat and discomfort
I am prone to wish gone
from my summer day’s malaise,
and let my mind in ease relent
the harsh day’s smolder,
stinging skin and pain as I grow older,
now in gloaming state,
as I await that gully breeze
to save me.
Dull the heat, relentless,
clear skies despised for rays so blatant,
summer’s burn too adept for escape,
as the shadows bare just heat alone,
the sting for old skin
too much been sewn when I was young,
and now in shriveled masquerade,
my pristine white visage in shade,
a sanctity of fragility on parade
under hat and glove,
let failing sun now cool.
What stars recall now graces sky,
in diamond studs to pacify my will,
but dull heat gloom resumes under velvet,
and nil the breeze I hoped for,
to chill the sweat I’m doused in,
relive the days before the sin
of summer’s swelter,
instead more of the same,
in shadows long
as sun don’s its goodbye hat,
and welcomes in the night.
A few degrees, not much at all,
does ease night to a slow grinding,
and not a stitch of air
does move to ease the pain,
as silent weight burdens streets,
no dogs to bark in this heat,
just a heavy weighted air,
as if not to care for we humans
on the edge of nature’s frown,
as summer marks another day
brown and dry.
Tony DeLorger © 2018
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I send thee visions of snowfall, large soft flakes floating down so gracefully to alight on your forehead and arms, to soothe and cool you so gently. Such an emotive piece with vivid imagery. Well done, Tony. Do take care dear poet.
Yes, I could do with a snowfall. Lol Thanks Phyllis pleased you enjoyed. take care.