Ode To a Swimming Pool

Blue, blue, blue

That's the color of you

My Lifetime swimming pool.

For years I resisted your siren call

"Too expensive"

"Too crowded"

Excuses — I had them all.

This year something softened my hardened heart,

I jumped (no diving allowed) right in at summer's start.

How did we manage to live apart?

(My house was a lot cleaner, that's a start.)

The swimming test my kids both passed

My eldest loved to swim his laps

My youngest lived to ride the slide

I watched sweet summer days slip by

At the side of you, swimming pool.

There was always a friend — or five — to be found

On sunny chairs us Moms would lounge,

And discuss the way that Gone Girl ends

While children laugh and splash with friends.

Blue, blue, blue

Is how I feel

As summer comes to an end

No more days lounging at the pool, my little ones are off to school.

Not so little, but bigger growing

How I wish to make time slowing!

But on lonely winter days so cold and cruel,

I'll have warm memories of the swimming pool.

(Editor's note: An ode to a pool? Has Laura gone insane?

Let's say too much chlorine on her brain.)