Tag: summer

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 66

Day 66: “Lorde & Savior”

I press play

Close my eyes

Breathe

I’m transported

to 2017

“Melodrama” CD blasting

Feeling new feelings

Maturing

Freeing

Enjoying the summer

For once

When I open my eyes

It’s not 2017

It’s now

Still hot as heck

But

Somehow I can tolerate the heat

When I’m listening to “Virgin”

I feel free

Fed

Awake

Confident

Grown

Alive

Capable

Cool

Lorde might just have saved my summer

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 57

Day 57: “Summer”

I get why there are seasons

I understand that in order to fully appreciate the cold

We need the heat

And vice versa

But

I hate the heat

Therefore I hate summer

I can’t differentiate the summer from the heat

From the constant sweating

The discomfort

The blazing sun

The sunburn

I get heat rash from being outside for two minutes

I get bug bites from being outside for two minutes

I get annoyed from being outside for two minutes

I think I could deal with it when I was younger

Because I didn’t have school

But I always ended up being excited to go back

Excited for fall

Now

As an adult

There is no summer vacation

And I think that’s horrific

I know I need to get over it

Complaining won’t change it

But

Maybe

Just maybe

If I’m loud enough

The season will change

And it’ll start to get cooler

I get the feeling that will happen

If I keep complaining for just a couple more months