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To Summer As The Semester Comes To An End

Please be good to us.

 Braelyn Diamond
Apr 16, 2018
College of Charleston
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To Summer As The Semester Comes To An End
Braelyn Diamond

Dear Summer,

Where have you been? It seems like you’ve been gone for so long. I’m so happy that you’re almost back. You’re so close I can smell you. I can almost feel your warmth on my skin. And I can already see the glow on my skin you’ve brought me. I’m always better when you’re around. The sky is always bluer when you’re here, the grass more green, the laughs louder, the water colder, the nights longer.

Thank you for reuniting me with old friends and allowing me to spend more time with family. Thank you for bringing with you good times and many memories. Thank you for the beach trips and the pool days. Thank you for never letting me down. Thank you for staying consistent every year.

It’s always good to see you. It seems like we’ve been separated for forever, and I’ve desperately needed the happiness and excitement you bring to me. Every year you treat me better, and I hope this time around is no different. I ask that you come with adventure. Come with productivity. Come with relaxation. Come with growth.

It seems like life has gotten more stressful, but I know you’ll bring relief because you always do. I’m ready to let your sun drain me of all the stress the rest of the year has brought. Ready for you to give me time to blossom, to take on a new hobby, to take a trip. I’m ready for the good energy you bring and the motivation you give me. I don’t know what you have in store for me, but you never disappoint. Let this visit be better than the last, and each one after gets better and better. Please be good to me, Summer. Please be good to us.

Sincerely,

Me

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