I Wish We Could Stay Here Forever

For Sloane

I wish we could stay here forever

With my aunts and uncles and kin

In a beautiful house by the ocean

Where summer never ends.

We won't have to worry with packing

Or having enough gasoline

Or the hours and hours of driving

Stuffed in the car like sardines.

If this beach house could be our home always

We'd gather each shell from the shore.

Music would play neverending.

We'd dance in our flip-flops 'til four.

Give me firetruck parades every morning,

Blow bubbles that last like balloons, 

And fishes that never stop biting.

Each night there should be a full moon.

But...

Rainbows would lose all their magic

Being stuck in the sky every day,

And castles of sand grow more precious

When the tide comes to sweep them away.

Too quickly we tender our goodbyes

For everyday duties to tend ...

Still...

I wish we could stay here forever

And summer would never end.