What Is It (about Summer)

What is it about summer
That makes you laugh so hard
And shine so bright
Things seem so clear.
The ringing sounds,
the music in your ear.
The fearful jumps, landing just right.
The longest reads and shortest nights.
The cool ice cream and the happy screams.

You taught me love and bravery.
The scaredest of me coming to my knees.
Just by watching you.
I learned a lot by,
See all the fearful things
Things that I wouldn’t do.
Whispers In my ear,
Rising up agin as I watch you
Take all those giants down.

No, they weren’t for me, and they’re not for you

Than again I hear Love
Say,
Remind
me of all I am.
I used to look a lot like you.
Some things never change.

Sometimes I still do.

I look in the mirror
and I see
All of what I could be.

Summer makes me think
It still could be happening.

Growing up
doesn’t have to mean that we’re
growing old.
We’re all growing up together,
that’s what I’ve been told.

That summer mirror
makes me see
All of what I might be
Growing up to be.

Growing young not growing old.
Growing wise, not growing cold.

Burning hotter for what’s true.
Living, laughing
Loving too, until the night is through

So take a running, flying leap,
Cause baby I got you 💛