Happy Ever After

It was sweltering Summer; so hot I could melt
and the sun was a gold deck of cards being dealt
and I felt the green field and it feeled just like felt
and, everywhere, oh what sweet perfumes, I smelt.

The whole world was warmer and brighter and softer
with butterfly flocks fluttering by like laughter
and honeybees busy chasing after gold;
a happy ever after to a tale Nature told.