A LONG HOT SUMMER

by Harry Bryant   Aug 16, 2004




A LONG HOT SUMMER

Did you ever go out walking on a summer night,
arm around your darling, holding her so tight,
she whispers to you, as you look into her eyes,
everything you see there, is a promised paradise,
her voice is low and throaty, and her heart is beating fast,
she has been waiting for this night, she knows that it won't last,
too soon the stars will disappear with the coming dawn,
broad daylight will find you two, just sitting on the lawn,
the summer passes slowly, each night you go to talk,
but there won't be the magic, like that early summer walk,
soon the nights turn damp and cool, and you must go back to school,
knowing she will never be the same,
it wasn't part of your game, that she should ever have your name,
you didnt care how she felt, your thoughts were below your belt,
because you got what you wanted, her life now will be haunted,
the months pass so slowly and her tummy grows,
then it is so obvious, and everybody knows,
there will someday be a child,
from that night you both went wild,
you never called or sent a card, to let her know you cared,
now her life will be so hard, from the night you both shared,
I have often wondered why, the shame is on the girl,
when it took the both of them, to give that love a whirl,
why does the lady have to pay,
while the man just merely walks away,
when the newborn baby begins to cry,
tears will fill his mothers eye,
then one day she meets someone new,
he just comes from out of the blue,
and she is full of hope again,
he is her sun, dries up the rain
she tells him about the child, that she has had,
he says , he always wanted to be a dad,
now they are man and wife,
to be together for all their life.

written by Harry Bryant
6/28/03 9:41:55 PM ©
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