Only August

Only August understands

Your warm body, hot heart and cold hands

When the day ends and your head falls

Only August is there to catch your petals

And wraps its branch around your shoulders

You believe yourself a weed

     August knows you're a marigold first

Only August can guide you gently into Autumn

                The way May took you to June

                    With your full blossom

Oh August

    Our old companion

Always honest

     Eyes of compassion

An offered promise

     Artist life, a validation

We thank thee

     For your belief, understanding

Ripe, sweet peaches

     And nights of enchanting

Let us allow August

     To return our life lust

With eyes wide, lungs full

     Bring back that blood rush

Move over modestly

     We will remain and oddity

Before we return to that Dust

     Head first

          We're diving into August