Summer Light

Summer light
that shines on me in kindness
is a song
I have tried all my life
to hear and sing.

The words are not perfected
and the strings
too often
bear the weight.
I need more brass.

If words like fish escape me,
still the song
laps back and back to haunt me,
lulls fear I feel
and also joy that fills me,

joy so fierce that words again elude,
but still the song
continues on and on:
it is my life.