A Summer of Soul

An orchestra echoed over Rotherhithe at dawn –

Violins violating the secret serenity of sleep.

Egyptian geese gasped at the gravity of life

Taking shape in the shadows of the sun.

26 degrees at 9am,

She rose to an anxious kettle –

Left abandoned by a weekend lie-in -

The worker’s unrelenting original sin.

The nebulous haze of Saturday’s natural narcotics

Nestled into her dreaming mind.

Time twirled in ecstasy –

In the perplexity

Of an un-orchestrated imagination.

The duvet’s depth carried her into the dark

And beautiful abyss of delusion.

Care-free,

Thought-free,

She floated on foreign foam,

Whilst simultaneously being at home.

Familial cuddles cradled her.

Soon her uncle and aunty would arrive

And deprive

Her

Of her unrelenting isolation,

Sought in summer’s heat

To simply survive the scolding sociability

Of being social.

Prosecco poured.

Coffee curated.

Creative conversations of art and life awaited.

Water whimsically danced into cool crevices

That bathed in the delinquency of yesterday’s dusk.

Strawberries soaked in the sun’s sober rays –

Lay percolated with promises of satisfying days

Ahead.

Tragedies of time

Washed ashore

To greet ephemeral moments of eudaimonia -

Offering the Thames,

A persona

Of perfect insanity.

Yet, she calls to us to ‘Go placidly

amid the noise and the haste’

To remind us that there may be peace in silence,

In Solitude,

Sanity,

Insanity -

Serenity in whatever state we embrace

Or foolishly misplace,

For we are ‘children of the universe,

No less than the trees and the stars’

And each day is deservedly ours

To adore.

Strolling in the sunshine with love at your side,

Brings a sense of belonging to those

Who feel that they do not fit

Into the frivolous fibres of society.

‘I am so glad to be me’

She whispered to a dormant banshee.

Smiles simmered as summertime

Grasped every ounce of seclusion –

Lifting fictitious frost

Upon the melody of a melting metropolis.

One afternoon in London

Of life,

Laughter,

And love,

Is simply enough

Thereof.