Ode to a Lost Summer

Summer, oh summer,

Where have you gone?

I've searched in the closets;

I've looked on the lawn.

Seems that just yesterday

You had only begun.

Now you're fading fast

And leaving me glum.

School's 'round the corner

And creeping up quick;

All the work to be done

Is making me sick.

May start counting the days

To every last break,

'Stead of telling off kids

To go jump in a lake.

Alas my poor summer,

I'll be grieving your loss;

Bearing a busy schedule

Will soon be my cross.

Sixty-nine days 'til

Fall break will arrive;

I think I can make it,

Or maybe I'll die.