The Big Yellow Ball

by Barbara Lynn Terry

Over the mountains it came,

The big yellow ball.

Smiling it said, “this day I claim

For one and all.”

Go out and play

In my warm rays,

Splash around at the beach,

Or for the sky reach

Inside your dreams,

While for each other you scream

Your love forevermore

On the sandy shore,

That each other will never part

Because of Cupid’s arrow art.

Even though we lose a love,

Let us not throw down the glove,

But go on and on, looking for another.

The heart is a lonely hunter,

Love is a fleeting shadow,

Surreal in the shallow

Of the human mind,

But it is we in kind

That can pull away,

As we smile and say;

Over the mountains it came,

The big yellow ball.

Smiling it said, “this day I claim

For one and all.”