Where's Summer?

This is a poem I wrote on June 21, 2010. It was a poem I wrote on the first day of summer that year; unfortunately, it really wasn't feeling like summer at the time I wrote it. But that seems to be the way it is around here in the Seattle area; while the calendar may say that summer starts near the end of June, the summer weather doesn't seem to actually arrive until sometime in July.


Here it is, summer vacation
But it sure doesn't feel like summer
Where's the sun and the warmth?
This is such a bummer


Right now, it's just too cold and dark
And we need to say a prayer for sun
So it can be a sign
That summer has begun