A Summer is waning

For the seasons are changing

Beautiful is the water

As it awaits the historian's daughter

The girl in the rowboat stands at the front

An exultant jump is all I want

She has a family like no other

Behind her and watching are her parents and her brother

They all witness her enjoying the final sunny days

Before Western Washington turns to its grey and rainy ways

I wasn't really there but I imagine it now

What they were all thinking and I really wonder how

There is the feeling of reflectiveness in the air

That moment when people acknowledge the memories they bear

Everything is concluded and that is when she leaps

Creating a scene so symbolic I hope everyone sees

That joyous moment of jumping into the Sound with a laugh

Frozen in time when someone takes a photograph.