The summer’s stillness of arresting heat; That makes you lie down in lush green pastures To marvel at the passing menagerie of heaven’s clouds Bringing perfect peace and no distractive sounds. May you daydream of Vikings with horned helmets, Pirate ships and floppy capped elves; Puffy dragons Passing overhead in a lazy afternoon parade led By the bearded lady of the circus; gives rise to Long lost imagination and contemplative delight. A cacophony of crickets, cicadas and mosquitoes Kamikazes with their buzz of surprise attack On vulnerable arms and legs. And the fourth of July lightning bug daredevil pilots with their Pulsating beauty and aerial dogfights In flashing blazes of glory. Add the mystery of a sudden summer evening Display of blood-chilling thunder and fireworks Of Greek gods of mythology hurling their Thunderbolts of lightning across the agitated night sky. The tears of God’s falling rain soften the earth In a rejuvenation of hope that each living plant or Person becomes a personification Of His non-judgmental Love. May your thirst for God be as single-minded As the spawning salmon who overcomes any Obstacle of opposing currents and fearlessly Jumps the rapids of self-comfort, self-concern, Self-preservation and self-reliance with a Goal-oriented determination to escape the Life-destroying clutches of the grizzly bear of self-pity. Where is your path, O’ Lord that I may walk with you And forever dwell in your heart’s arms? “Walk in the path of delight, my Child, and dance for joy.” - by Marc R. Boulais 7/2011 .