Agile Acrobat

Today begins a new school year in Canada, and though the calendar says its still summerfor a few more weeks, summer always feels officially over when school begins!My prayers are for lots of tots and parents this morning as many weather tides offears and tears of letting go etc... Sometimes I pinch myselfat how once upon a time The Summer of Life seemed to stretchendlessly ahead!Now I turn to see its 'eternity' as nothing more than a splash of sun-sparkleson a sea-swept shore... Time winks and whisks another summer into memory booksAs sentimental mothers gaze with fond and lingering looksAt days that sweetly, swiftly swept through outstretched hearts and handsTo join their predecessors kept in bygone’s far-flung lands Time winks and weeps where wonder thunders beneath our skinNo wish or want can keep at bay the future closing inWhere all the while new day beguiles with new moments releasedLike quilt patches in Bygone’s counterpane, each one is pieced Time winks and weeps and flies and tries to fit us with new shoesThat life insists upon and no one is ready to choose(How in the whirl of little boys and girls did I becomeA strange, yet splitting image of a version of ‘me mum’) (my mom) Time winks and weeps and flies and leaps, an agile acrobatThat balances on heartstrings and bows as he tips his hatWhile we gather our bearings with a trembling chin held highBracing Ourselves for love’s next round of hello and good-bye …while oceanic tempests surge and crash on shores unseenWhile we gaze in amazement at where summer’s isle had beenWhile time winks, weeps, and flies and leaps across echo-glossed barsWhile we brush summer from our cheeks in a blur of salt-stars © Janet Martin Grand-sonny- 1st day of SK!💖