Summertime

A day with you in summer
Is a soft gentle kiss to the meadow greens
A lovely rose bud that shoots its fragrant bloom
A flight on mighty wings to the lofty sapphire skies.
A summer spent with you could outstretch time beyond the cosmic chambers
Your substance lit the jewels and fires of the winter Pleiades and great Orion
Your heat is a fever that sparks the deepest fiery springs of Betelgeuse and the Sun.
Do not cast away your eyes from me this summer
Though your gaze be a thousand army that attacks me with swords and banners
Your countenance is a throne of Angel Oak trees
That spread its canopy over my sweet darling fields of white and red flowers.
You are a path to wedding feast, rich banquet, and thoughts of endless sunshine
Days that miss you bequeath a desert heat and drought of starlight to Deneb, Vega, and Altair
And loss of my heavenly dark blue hopeful nights of warm blessed summer.