Escape

ESCAPE - A POEM BY OUR PARISH POET

The warm breeze ripples across

The still, green water of this hidden treasure.

I sit, idly relaxed, watching another world

Surviving the realities of an awakening day.

Birds, butterflies, bees

Enjoy the bounty and beauty

Of a Summer garden in all its glory.

The already hot sun shimmers iridescently

On the two dragonflies waltzing

Above the pink and white beflowered lily pads,

The playground of thirteen newly hatched ducklings,

Watched by their mother, in perpetual motion,

Ever aware of the lurking heron and the other predators.

The sinuous, golden body

Of a large carp breaks the surface –

And so departs another innocent victim –

Enjoying this blissful day.

How long before the victor becomes the vanquished?

Begone dull care!

‘Tis not the time to darkly muse –

Even if it is the longest day!

The sky is blue,

The warm wind whispers through the trees,

Rose scented air bewitches.

The sun warms the skin.

And, soporifically, eyelids droop.

Retreat!

Now, from dappled, cooler vantage,

I watch a world so differently desirable -

But we can always dream and hope.