This Late Summer Day

Let me enjoy this late-summer day
of my heart while the leaves
are still green and I won't look so close
as to see that first tint
of pale yellow slowly creep in.
I will cease endless running and
then look to the sky ask the sun
to embrace me and then hope she won't
tell of tomorrows less long than today.
Let me spend just this time
in the slow-cooling glow of warm
afternoon light and I'd think
I will still have the strength
for just one more last fling of my heart.

John Bohrn, Late August

I awoke to 69º this morning since I had left most of the windows open throughout the night. It was chilly, and I contemplated staying in bed instead of arising for church. Instead I did go to church, and the opening (poem above) at church resonated with me as I contemplated the beginning of the school year marking the end of summer. Today I did "enjoy this late summer day" as I read in the sun and grilled on my deck. Tomorrow I will be ready to go back to work, but today I enjoy the wonders of summer.

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