A Spring Prayer

Days ago, under a black umbrella, The Earth, shrouded in sheets of white, Lay inert as a lifeless corpse, Waiting for the ineluctable graveyard shift After the muted shades of grey n' white The world is now painted afresh In fluorescent shades of green, yellow and red Days mesh with scenes of vernal beauty And sounds of moving feet n' jubilant crowd Tender shoots of green peek from the earth's crust And dandelions parade their first yellow blossoms Animals have woken up from their winter nap Birds have begun winging their way back Crossing alien boundaries to their sweet homes The overhanging silence is broken With new sounds that tickle the air Bees from floral cups, the heavenly nectar sip Signalling winter has lost its obstinate grip In the midst of all these cheerful immensities Flakes of snow, layer on layer, lie piled within And harden as rocks with worms of fear inching their way To eat away all the delicate buds of hope Spring, Oh! Spring grace me with your regal smile Brightening my sky with constellations of stars Crash down the walls that segregate, leaving me a fugitive And pour love's balm into my bruised soul Possess me as an unseen benevolent spirit Thawing the frozen interiors with your warm sunshine!