Warm “Other” Days

I remember a summer haze

A warmth embracing a world

And two girls in a balcony

Drawing a question mark in the air unfurled

And laugh how the future

Will be a place of welcome land

And no matter the odds

They’ll overcome and understand

No doubt inspired by parents

Who knit for them the pattern of the past

And seemed the tapestry will just extend

To reach the last one who’d last

Gone are the girls and their warm other days

Now the balcony stands, question mark evaporated

And I try to survive blazing heat instead of happy haze

I wonder where they are now? In the world they created?

Two lonely girls; two lonely guys; how do they now fare

In a world that claims opposites detract

Definitely, every fair from fair declines; just not fair

To have love in the air; but no one to attract