Summer's Longing

She longed for his company each summer's day, He couldn't appear because he lived far away. The days they had known another and were fair, They shared a love for friends and fresh air. Nature's conquest and a love for mankind, Their days and nights really rhymed. He was an intelligence that she needed by her side, A passion that lived and that she had to hide. Much more complex than before, A novel written behind the closed door. A poet by nature, what the great poets write about, Love retrieved with memories rare and uncompromising. Simple patterns of living, escaping to a different realm, All the while they never leave and simply be. Author: Gwen Meyer-Erlach Schutz