Frozen ground is all around me <br />I want spring to come soon… <br />And show me who I really am. <br /> <br />When flower tongues festoon <br />Grow and cover me above <br />Intern me even as I go, below. <br /> <br />I want to feel the winds warmth <br />When rains fall in the summer <br />And the tarmacs shimmer. <br /> <br />This is how I’ll know, I’ll also <br />Live forever with hope <br />In a dream that goes on forever. <br /> <br />Heart beats heavy as a skein <br />Of geese looking for hemispheres <br />Beyond what we all call our sun. <br /> <br />And when this melting’s begun <br />I’ll pray the summer is a summer <br />Longer than any other summer. <br /> <br />Longer than all the stars numbered <br />Counted together - next one another <br />Longer than any Indian summer.<br /><br />Mark Heathcote<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/longer-than-any-indian-summer/
