Submission by Kim Solem

[Kim Solem]

The following poem was written specifically for this call and has never been published anywhere else.

My Summer Solstice

 

In the summer solstice

Of my young life

Everything was beautiful

And all was bright

 

My spirit was free

My mind filled with dreams

Of what I might become

And what I would be

 

If only I could flee

Life’s wretched winter

The causes my bones to ache

And my skin to shiver

 

And go back to those days

Of my summer solstice

When I was carefree,

Happy and precocious