Spring Blessings

All was ice and frozen were my dreams

Earth lay beneath a blanket strewn by God,

Eternal snowfalls whitening the world.

Now death in an in an interminable hour

Had silenced hope when beauty disappeared.

Beneath me life was stilled, no sound was heard

Of waking bud piercing through the crust

Of matter's density, the somnolence

Of a silent world that lay in white repose.

Below one could not see, all closed to view,

Above a frozen firmament in time.

And then the miracle recurred once more,

The land awoke and I the sleeper arose

Unsteady with the heaving of the heart.

The sudden spring before my window burst

In waves of colour brightening eye andsoul.

Again I looked out from my sprit's doors

Opening once more to the heart's delight.

The link again grew sure, my soul leaped forth

As dawn in all its majesty appeared.

Trills and soulful melodies I heard

And walked by flowers reaching for the sun,

Their prayerful heads on the fields of gratitude.

All who went before me I recalled

As one who feels the blessing of the rain

Remembers beauty and the kindly word,

The selfless deed, the ultimate sacrifice

And bows a thankful head for knowing those

Great souls who came to free us from ourselves.