Beating Back The Wind

We're just an hour
And not even that:
The summer holidays
Don't seem
so long ago.
Remember skimming stones
From a sandcastle home?
You'd never have guessed
That autumn would come.

We're just a second
And not even that:
And so the future
never seemed
So far away
Remember skimming stones
Dodging butterfly bombs?
I've been beating back the wind
On that one.