I.
It was just a little piece of summer
Late, after the hottest heat had gone
When we met on our bikes in the schoolyard
And circled around in the sun
I knew you and you knew me
Your sis was my sis’s best friend
But we never had spoken until that time
And never would speak again.
But for those few weeks our souls
Were one as if forever
We came each day to the same wide place
While pleasant was the weather.
It was as if the stars themselves
Had opened us a way
Where we might wander soul to soul
But only for a day
There was no ending to this time
No anger caused us parting
But way led on to way again
One day that lot was empty
Years on I think about those days
When you and I together
Spent hours happy while the world
Gave us time to wonder
II.
There was a time in Autumn
Before the chill came on
When I found a hidden hillside
And looked down on the lawns
And all the town that I did know
I saw another way
And thought of how the people there
Must live from day to day
It was from that distance that I learned
That life was not a game
That something holy went on there
Even if not fame.
III.
For just a week in winter
When snow had locked me up
I read the books my father kept
Upon his highest shelf
The days were quiet while I read
Of Plato and of Paul
Of Odysseus and Socrates
And Christ above them all.
It was as if the Lord Himself
Had given me that time
To think without distraction
Upon the life sublime.
IV.
There was a week one springtime
The why I’ll never know
When I couldn’t miss a baseball
Hit anything they’d throw
I wonder now if anyone
Had made a note of that
But the streak stopped quickly as it came
And I was just another bat.
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