I challenge you…

to try to remain focused
on your mind’s troubles
when fallen tree-blossom petals
keep playfully popping
your bubble,

to attempt to cling
to the dust
gathering on
your dream’s wings
when gusts
of spring breeze
keep gleefully
sweeping,

to keep your head down
from the weight
of the world
when the sky keeps trying
to tantalize your gaze
with bursts of new-morning colors
and clouds ever-shifting
into signs and shapes,

to stay lost
in your desperate search for
home
when the endless paths
keep beckoning you
to put on your shoes
to walk your soul
to where it needs you
to go,

to bury in the cold, dark ground
the hope you’ve written off as false
and walk off
just before the spring
emerges again
with new buds that bleed
leaf-green and rose-red.

I challenge you…

to try to keep
focused on your woes
and grief
when Mother Nature
and Spring
are teaming up and waiting
to scoop you up
and take you away
for a while;
why do you resist
their free gifts and service,
all the ways
the wonders all around you
persist
in letting you witness
how beautiful
life is,
especially with you
in it?

 

Poem and all images ©LauraDenise