Heavy weight of winter

Keep spring from me

Drag me by my ankles

Through would-be fields of flowers

Still deliberately icy

Still sleeping, nestled into time

And bury me safely beneath frozen roots

Let frost creep over me

Keep me in its bondage

Lest I glimpse blue skies and ask myself

Do you think the sun gets lonely up there?

The question burns too much to bear

Let clouds keep me from the plight of its rays

Let snowfall whisk away warmth before it stays

That first warm breeze

That tickles through like a tease

If I capture a taste

Let it dissipate in the smoke of my cold

Choked breath

I want no part of it

Anymore

How could I think to survive again

A moment past a fresh April rain

Everything awakening around me

Life bursting from the ground

As if rain would melt my chains

And blossoms tempt my captors from their posts

Dark dead of winter

Keep my weary heart from beating

Any louder

Let spring pass us by

Without the gift of a moment’s glance

So we never have to question

Why again and again it leaves

In its cosmically choreographed dance

Or why some places

It will never find at all