mid-summer sunsets

How lovely the long, lingering sunsets of mid-summer.

These special times, so casually enjoyed during the spring and 

busy summers of our lives,

When winter seemed a distant season.

Are more evocative now when viewed from December’s perspective.

Each golden mid-summer eve to be savored, for each is unique and

gone forever when day fades into night.

How useless to wonder how many more there might be,

For that is unknowable, to be decided by fate.

Better to not question, but to just inhabit and enjoy,

The gift of these special hours.