Eager to get the taste of sweet cold,
I spoke to myself as a child
‘finish your work first’
The heat within my walls
almost as stifling as
the heat outdoors ~ the difference
between wind in the trees and
the hum of the air conditioner
is natural and welcome.
We all milled about in an
orderly fashion at the ice cream window;
clots of three or four friends coming for
the same cold treat that I sought.
Some took their decorated ice creams
to savour while sitting on benches,
or in the courtyard under trees.
With slowed eagerness to get home
I ‘finished my ice cream’ and
renewed my walk under the trees to home.
“I arise full of eagerness and energy,
knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.”
~ Zane Grey
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