Hold Fast The Summer
 

Hold Fast The Summer: School will soon start and those children will be going off to college: Enjoy them while you are able to.
“Hold Fast the Summer” by Mary W. Able


Hold fast the summer.

It is the beauty of the day

and all it contains.

The laughter and work and

finally the sleep. The quiet.

Oh September, do not put your

weight upon my mind.

For I know he will be going.

This son of mine who is now a man — he must go.

Time will lace my thoughts with joyous years.

The walls will echo his "Hello."

His caring will be around each corner.

His tears will be tucked into our memory book.

Life calls him beyond our reach — to different walls.

New faces, shiny halls, shy smiles, many places.

Greater learning — he must go.

But wait, before he leaves, be sure he knows you love him.

Hide the lump in your throat as you hug him.

He will soon be home again — but he will be different. The little boy will have disappeared.

How I wished I could take September and shake it,

for it came too soon.

I must look to the beauty of each new day,

and silently give thanks.

By Mary W. Able

Re: Hold Fast The Summer
 

Wow. How fitting this is for me today! Just returned today from enrolling our firstborn, oldest and sweetest baby girl into college today. WHERE oh WHERE did time go! Seems like just yesterday we were getting her ready for kindergarten, and now... college!

:tissue

One good thing... she will still be able to live at home while she goes to college, since we live within driving distance of the college she will be attending for the next two years.

Re: Hold Fast The Summer
 

That's great to hear, I would hate to see one of mine go off to college these days.

Re: Hold Fast The Summer
 

Beautiful! :)