Summer's Seduction

I posted this poem last year, but it expresses how I'm feeling now.

Summer’s seduction

Makes it easy to forget

As I walk my tentative feet

On its warm carpet of grass

I no longer remember

The sting of biting ice

The cling of stubborn mud.

It whispers in the breeze

You are safe.

You are warm.

The sky is your ceiling.

No need for shelter.

Walk unafraid.

It’s time to forget

The cold that split your skin

The grey that weighed heavy on your head.

See my flowers dance

My rivers tumble.

Let my smile lift you

From east to west.

And just like that

The cold that came before and

The gloom that would not go

Is erased.

Belief comes too easily.

I slip into a certainty

That all that is now

Is all that was

And will always be.