End of Summer

End of summer arrives over the hill with yielding flowers in little red buckets half eaten pizza boxes discarded at will theme parks lay vacant as open lockets a Japanese lilacs gives one last gait the birds fly south with Autumnary song shaker knits aired as bathing suits deflate life begins to slow as we lose the throng mother earth encases bereft of cloak and golden fields lay barren without fruit regardless of the change we opt to stroke the last of summer as it spills out mute as the season configures and declines I go higher up where the sun still shines . 8/11/2019 Writing Challenge 1, August 2019 - Just Write Sponsor, Dear Heart