{"id":1038,"date":"2017-06-30T23:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2019-06-07T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T15:35:14","slug":"summers-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/summers-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1689 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/krystina-rogers-85945-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/krystina-rogers-85945-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/krystina-rogers-85945-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/krystina-rogers-85945-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/krystina-rogers-85945-unsplash-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/krystina-rogers-85945-unsplash-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/krystina-rogers-85945-unsplash-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I knew it would be like this when you returned.\u00a0 It\u2019s always been this way.<\/p>\n<p>The signs are there, omnipresent as the dawn, in the mirror, out the window, in the sky if I dare look up.<\/p>\n<p>You arrive early, and arrogantly linger later each day, beholden to no one, keeper of the clock, doling out the bejeweled hours that can be extended, dream-like, only at your bidding.<\/p>\n<p>You declare yourself with such clarity, such brazen beauty, that is easiest, really best, to wade in, leap in, maybe even, to the forceful current you are.<\/p>\n<p>What could possibly be wrong, after all, about you returning?\u00a0 \u00a0Let\u2019s celebrate, you taunt me, and why not, indeed, because I can\u2019t work, can\u2019t concentrate, as long as you are here, alluring as ever.\u00a0 Thoughts yield to the breeze, artfully dodging completion, crumbs make a final and unyielding stand on unwiped surfaces, the mail climbs higher in its abject, lonely stack.<\/p>\n<p>This time, maybe just this once, let\u2019s give in to all that you are.\u00a0 Take these days, and illuminate them as you will; can you linger?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 You are going, already?\u00a0 Unthinkable.\u00a0 Unbearable.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t leave me.\u00a0 I adore you.<\/p>\n<p>June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-810\" src=\"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/h-swimming7-16-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-762\" src=\"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/apples-in-bowl-2016-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1008\" src=\"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lida-H-and-me-5.17-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it would be like this when you returned.\u00a0 It\u2019s always been this way. 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