The Duckling and Gosling Debutants
March along with heads held high
The bear cubs flail with playful taunts
As children laugh ‘neath pure blue sky
The cold dead world, soon melts off death
The fruits and flowers dare to grow
The creatures breathe an easy breath
As ice yields to the sun’s warm glow
Then, once upon a minute’s past
The ducks and geese make their escape
Though feelings still endure and last
The snowflakes freeze the green landscape
It’s then that skies begin to churn
And those that breathe can watch their breath
The breathing ones to earth return
And those who don’t all mimic death
It’s then that frost begins its fight
And waters finally yield to cold
The snow falls silent through the night
As father time pursues the old
The brooks freeze from their bubbling
The weak begin a mournful cry
And tree boughs bend for reckoning
As one by one the old ones die
A lonely shiver in the cold
A blinding mist hides warming light
And all that’s left before the bold
Is the dark and chill of night
Memories fade and laughter dies
The sun sinks deeper and less bright
The twinkle leaves the tired eyes
And hopeful beings lose their sight
There is no place to hide or run
No voices dare a song to sing
The world chokes from it’s lack of sun
And nightmares bring the reckoning
All Joy is bound as if by rope
And still the belfries fail to ring
The cracks show in the glass of hope
When nightfall calls the reckoning
Then in the distance something stirs
The sun sings promise of return
Nature claims what once was hers
And souls wait longing yet to burn