Please stay here with me.

I know you’re in so much pain.

Stay for strawberries.

They are joy in a bite

Love in a swallow

Stay for strawberries.

The pain is so much

I know how hard you have fought.

Stay just a little longer

I’ll buy you strawberries.

Let the flavor of summer roll on your tongue

Let the joy of hot days warm your heart

Let a little rebellion into your mind

Tell your pain it can’t control you.

Not today.