Dreading August

I wrote this in my senior year of high school (2005). It's about my girl friend leaving for college in August

I sit and watch the sun cover the sky

With a crimson curtain of

Last-minute Sunlight, dreading

The mountain peak

It hides behind, like a

Shy robin on the edge of a branch

Seeking refuge to avoid

The coming rain…

This heart that has come to love you

Beats in my chest and pounds in my ears

As I realize that I too dread the up-coming

Moment of disappearing behind my own

Mountain peak…

Dreading the mountain peak of August

I too will have

My light, my life,

Scattered, left only to

Dissolve into what’s left of a

So-called violet sky

With stars and moons that

Are expected to shine

To keep the light alive

At least until the sun comes

Up again

But what purpose do they serve

If the sun never returns?

What light do they give if the sun

Fades into oblivion?

I turn to the East and watch

With deep anticipation for

The sun to return,

For the obscurity of the

Night sky be replaced

By the light I need to live…

I wait, and watch as the stars

Reflect the light off my eyes,

The same light that once entered yours,

Still, I wait…

But what purpose does it serve

If the sun is already gone?

Gone…

Behind the mountain peak…

The dreaded mountain peak

Of August      

Author's Note

don't really want any critique, but if you like it let me know.

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