Sunshine

(Picture Credit - Summer by ULCA Writers)

Sunshine!

Life’s lingering flashlight.

Too bright to stare at the sun.

Don’t stay out in it too long.

Suffocating heat sometimes.

My porch gets like a baking oven.

Get burnt and it will peel your skin.

Visions of desert dunes,

Camel trails:

A searing sun that sends you delirious,

Mirage-seas shimmering hypnotically above the sands.

I love the sun.

My memories of buckets and spades,

Golden sandcastles along the esplanades.

Delicious ice-cream.

A cooling breeze.

Grass and pollen

Making you sneeze.

A mini-heatwave we have now,

But storms will come

Over that brow.

British weather I have to say:

Sunshine now

For which we’ll pay.

Paul Butters