Summer Retreat 

Summer times 

The days long, months sweet 

Summer treats 

Planes, pools and cousins 

Humid weather, visitors, and enticing food 

It ended as soon as it started 

The summer days were slowly dying 

Didn’t want to return, didn’t want to go back

To the remaining memories of the last year past 

To return back to the place 

To the time

When I was no longer blithe 

I would cry 

Heart heavy, tears in the forecast of the midnight sky 

To go back to the place where toxicity would await 

To the place where friends were fake 

Where words were no longer promises 

Trust shattered 

Nothing mattered 

Summer was my escape 

But to return in the fall 

To my misery 

And appall

I went back on the plane, bade farewell to the cousins 

Returned to the place where I was treated like nothing

Anticipating hardship and pain 

To my delight the dragons were slain 

The conflict no longer remained 

The summer days gifted me strength and vigor 

And made me remember that with hardship comes ease 

To reset my priorities  

And although the past was bitter 

The future was blissful 

And I was healed