For An April Prayer Song

 

 

 

 

 

For An April Prayer Song

 

 

The cold of the ground

Emanates away - as winter’s sense

Retreats...  taking her fleece gown;

 

Leaving behind a naked past tense

Of decaying carcasses; fallen wood

 

For life reclaims the surrenders that death took

And, eventually everything will change;  it is understood –

 

The cook with the crook looks for the rooks

Crowing -  to awaken the silent giant’s riant

 

And the gray pallor across his traced face

Warms; the miracle heat transforming an arthritic pose - pliant

And, the greening snake sheds her mint colors full of grace.