HARD TO REMEMBER
I find it hard to remember freezing cold winter days
When the sun is hot and shining, and the breeze sways
The trees, the early morning chorus before the early sun
Awakes you to another bright summer day newly begun.

It’s hard to remember the bitter wind cutting and cold
As an ice cream cone you lick and it melts as you hold,
Seeing the children splashing in the clear open lakes,
Such a warm comforting scene each short summer makes.

It’s hard to remember being muffled up so just noses show
As along the streets, in shorts and tee shirts, people do go,
Then we look at all the greenery as lovely flowers grow
It is hard to remember piles of ice and white cold snow.

How easily out of our minds a seven month winter we push,
As summer comes without much spring in such a great rush,
Impatient to come, ward off every sign of winter’s icy cold,
As summer enters our domain all beautiful bright and bold.

Too short your stay dear friend of mine, summer so warm,
Too soon fades each bright and glorious very early dawn,
Too soon fades late sunsets when midnight is not yet dark
And much too soon will fade the song of the morning lark.

Then too soon the snow flies and I remember once again,
That winter lasts seven months to cause us cold and pain,
Just once summer, stay a little longer to keep winter away,
For very few of us want the return of a short five hour day.

(Millicent) Ann Margetson July 8, 2002