One Dangerous Summer

(For Ernest Hemingway)

The sky was entreating
Never so icy blue
I never imagined
Would be the last of you

The ocean was dancing
To a spirited song
The reeds, too, were whistling
And humming along

You were there flying
In this cauldron of heat
Far away from the city
Far away from the street

Yet I saw something chilling
In the glint of your eye
One dangerous summer
When you said goodbye

The clouds are relentless
And they threaten to flood
The sea now dumbfounded
And full of your blood

I remember the beginning
Never closer were we
In the folds of these dunes
There lies something of me

You were there flying
In this cauldron of heat
Far away from the city
Far away from the street

Yet I saw something chilling
In the glint of your eye
One dangerous summer
When you said goodbye