Summertime

Summer is always 
so very simple 
and freshly sweet 
strawberries ice cream 
paddle boats carrying 
lovers and cousins 
escaping the heat 
beach days fluffy
novels tire swings
and don’t forget 
those vacation romances 
amidst seashore resorts 
these days come 
and they go 
and they stay 
next to seashells 
ticket stubs postcards 
and broken promises 
that they’d write