seasons greetings

Here’s an ode to you and me

A tad more than what you really see

For I don’t merely come and go

But with the feel and souvenirs and so much more

When I’ve got my sunny side up

I bring the shine and warmth of a buttercup

You call me summer the season of love

Of sand castles and seashells on a sunny beach cove

I’m warm, I ‘m bubbly and I ‘m here to please

Shine I do mightily on you till your love for me ceases to be

Then you wish I went behind a cloud

“Its time I change” I say out loud

I turn away and go sober and bleak

Gone is my sunny self, not even a peek

I fall into a stupor and shed tears of leaves

And you call me autumn, the season of relief

As months go by I come out of my shell

And puff out my cheeks and blow and swell

I charge out trailing snow, ice and hail

My breath cold and fierce like a blowing gale

 You greet me with joy skate about my trail

But as I get stronger you rush for shelter

And ward me off with fire as warm as my summery self

You wish my sunny self was here to get you warm as toast

And I laugh out biting cold and to myself I boast!

As a new year dawns bright and clear

I revive from my cocoon of ice, to treat my near and dear

With a spring in my leap, I kiss the flowers to bloom

I cheer the birds to sing and melt away gloom…

As you dance around celebrating the time

I sigh to see your lives, so much like mine

When I was there to please, you wish for me to fade

And when I turned away you begged for me to stay

For in life too, we never stay the same,

Change is a must, be it name or fame

My final words to you is to change for the right reason

And you’ll find me greeting you, as yet another season…

Yours truly

Season…..