Yesterday - the first day of spring, brought sunshine

And with it - new feelings, to make you feel so fine

And now, today, snow, sleet and cold again visit

To remind us winter was late this year and so it's



Not really spring, even though the calendar states

The turn of season has begun and thus - new fates

Await - as man's thoughts once again turn to love

As always happens after season ends, and you shove



Aside - those affairs of heart which fizzled as snow

Blew against windows, putting on such a good show

And hearts warmed by fires raging in stone hearths

Now are only fond remembrances - of other paths



Followed, when emotions were stirred to a simmer

And now revisitations of mind spark many glimmers

As you sort out feelings past and those you have now

And make some sense out of them all, as vibes below



Hum within the deeper recesses of your inner being

And love you felt once - you no longer - are seeing

For new exchanges of feeling have now supplanted

Those simmerings with onrushes of warmth chanted



In songs and verses which deal with seasonal change

... Really just a mask to hide all the hurt and pain ...

For LOVE raged within a mind, heart, body and soul

Then - winter's change renewed all that'd become old



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

6:45pm Sat. March 21st, 1998