The September’s of my childhood are warm and sweet
Like the summer’s end when it turns from August’s heat
The sunsets still gently beam kisses on my skin
Delightful and tempting like irresistible sin
The breeze wisps hair soft across my face
A grin curls around my cheeks like a welcome embrace
The crickets chirp through cracked windows at night fall
My lovers arms wrapped around me, the be-all end-all
It arrives with clear skies and bright wishing stars
And then it darkens with clouds and rewounds our scars
Now September is heavy, its burdens and memories
Like ghosts, invading and haunting the blissful reveries
September comes like a promise and leaves like a lie
Once offering safety, now a place you must survive
Its love sweet like honey and deliciously divine
Turns to stings of betrayal, destructive as the hive
It once brought life, now it drags the remnants
Vanquish complete with waving white pennants
Forcefully silenced, begrudgingly surrendered
Love and laughter beg yet to be remembered
Adored and cherished reduced to grief and cries
Now darkness comes devouring faith to your demise
Will I ever know for certain that it will all be alright
I questioned God through stammered breath and tear filled eyes
When you make it through September, you’ll see
From ashes you will rise again courageously
Refined like ember, humbled swiftly by October
Winter’s chill will ache but soon the year turns over
Quickly it begins once more, the faithful bloom of spring
Like hope, summer always returns, and again, you’ll smile and sing
If to joy and peace you cling and desperately holdfast
I promise you’ll make it through September, and you’ll make it through the rest
