Tuesday, May 02, 2006
... smiles fade in the summer...
Today, I break the customary rule of my blog title, and I use a random line instead of a song line.
Today, I shall also, instead of blogging about what happened today, blog about something that is stirred up in me when I read the line, "smiles fade in the summer".
Smiles fade in the summer...I am brought back to my childhood days of faraway, where I remember mistily; a long stretch of beach, a million stars and what seems like a lifetime of laughter...
I remember childish laughters being carried across the wind, toys discarded in the sand and children playing catch under a canopy of stars and moon. Slowly, however, that image is replaced by sobs, broken toys buried in sand, and the children playing catch, are gone.
They grew up...I used to be one of those children. I remember so much... The foolish smiles, the uncontrollable laughter, the pure, untainted happiness. Childlike innocence and childlike wonder.
Yet suddenly, that perfect world, came crashing down.
And all that happiness and picture-perfect lives, became broken smiles, uncontrollable sobs, and a desperate attempt to run away from the truth. And childlike wonder, and childlike innocence, was buried six-feet under.
... And the smiles we use to carry, the laughter that used to come so freely in the warm summer air, the scent of honeysuckles and barbequed meat mingling together, slowly faded away to be replaced by emptiness.And we let our smiles fade in the summer...
Posted by Char at 5:23 AM