Summer Solstice ©

** written for a competition in the forums **
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The sun is setting on the longest day
Fireflies and mist.

The bonfire crackles. The fields are sown.
The veil is rather thin.

A maiden of dark on the shortest night.
I'll stay until the dawn.

We'll raise a cone, pound a drum
and dance entrancing songs.

The wheel turns and time moves on.
But the heat and flames won't ever fade.
They just go someone else's way.