The Warmest Season

I wore a dress of lemonade and gold

And watched white daisies open to the sun

Beside the river’s bank, the water cold

Through emerald grass where we danced and we spun

I think of water balloons, afternoons

Spent smiling into cotton candy clouds

Old cartoons watched beneath bright yellow moons

Remembering days of laughing in crowds

Vanilla ice cream and walks at the park

We chased each other there, around the trees

We sat on the swings until it was dark

And I felt my heart melting on the breeze

I think of honey-colored firefly skies

Those nights I saw stars in your summer eyes