close slopes of grass
still green before the sun
can burn them brown.
Summer holds life in hot hands.
Rain is an interloper,
refreshing the blood
of the soon to be slain.
And what of me, weaving in the heat,
tiny shadow trailing behind
like a beaten soul?
Must all flesh wrinkle and die?
I will never be a father.
Life died waiting for autumn.
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