Last Days of Summer

Summer is the best season of the year...full of warm days, long lit evenings, family gatherings, watermelon and, of course, ice cream. Some folks live in summery places year round so it is not such a big deal, but in Ohio summer is special, mainly because it only lasts 3 or 4 months. We have a community pool where we live, and many times we have it to ourselves. It is not very big, but it is sparkly clean and the water is almost always the perfect temperature. In a few days, the sparkly clean, perfect temperature water will be spilled out onto the ground and we will have to wait for a very long time before we can swim in our pool again. So tonight, I swam and swam, trying to absorb every beautiful moment of the dipping orange sun and the greying sky. The sparkly clean, perfect temperature water supports my gliding strokes and makes such a wonderful slapping sound against the tiles. It is a friend that I love to hold on to, but cannot make stay. So I stay in the water until the last long ray of sun is gone.