Summer Is Long Gone

Once when we were younger We loved beyond belief; I pointed you past Pluto wandering while You helped me turn A propitiously proverbial new leaf. Free- f a l l i n g From the branches reaching Skyward, deep-space bound; When you were there I had no care If I were sideways, up or down. Landing Gently in your outstretched arms As comforting as grass; Either way, as leaf or lover Time never seemed to pass. Until A God-like breath of windy air Stirred me yesterday Alighting me you’d moved on; Now that my veins are turning brown And summer is long gone.