Making Lemonade

Making Lemonade-Revisited

By Maureen Ucles

Lemonade, Lemonade

Sitting on a makeshift table

please come forth

make yourself known

with your acidity

pH factor

so sour, sour

sourrowful

Lemonade, Lemonade

Sitting in the hot,

hot Summer Sun

Not too tart

Not too sweet

better than Country Time

Hand made

squeezed, squeezed

to perfection

guts and all

completely spent

sprinkled with

a little zest

Lemonade, lemonade

How many lemons  

gone and sacrificed

for you?

A few seeds 

seeped through

ice cold

to the touch

while you simmer

I muse

peer into...

Lemonade, Lemonade

was it worth it all?

Countless lemons
used and abused

peel and all

thrown away

forgotten

Worth the effort?

Blood, sweat, and tears?

So many years

devoted to

the making

of...of

you

For today

gone tomorrow

fleeting
 sweet, sweet
sorrow

to behold

if only

for an 

instant

Lemonade, Lemonade

Can you make it here?

Can you make it there?

Does anyone really 

care?

Cool winds  

blowing

breeze

showing

me knowing...

I,
 like you

making

lemonade

Lemonade, Lemonade

givin' up--

no more fear

Hey,

ya never know

could be

new frontiers?

Peering through

crystal prisms

new points of view

after endless

slamming of doors

windows are

 wide open

my soul's 

a' searching

me perching

lookin' in

ain't no sin

just me

drinking it up

my life

my lemonade

Ahhh!