Upheld In “Dear Winter…”

Ok, I promise!

This is the last Winter lament for this year. Really!

Dear Winter:

We have shared some sweet moments over the last few months. At first, you lulled me with mild promises. I thought we would have an easy time together. No icy hurdles prevented my coming and going. I felt kindly toward you.

In what I thought was your benevolence, the first beauty of sparkling snow showered me with gifts. Deer, turkeys, the laughter of children and even birds that frolicked in the lovely white powder. They left cute footprints. Oh, the joys of my heart!

But—then you treated me cruelly, and I just can’t take it anymore! I must move on and say GOODBYE to you!

The heat and lights you took from me with the blinding violence of your blizzards! It was abuse! Plain and simple! My plants looked dead after the onslaught of this last month. Some have disappeared altogether. How could you do this to me?

And then there are the swordcycles with which you falsely decorated my house! What are you trying to say? All I see is danger and a desire to harm my abode AND my person. What have I done that has turned you so against me?

Not to mention the cars slipping and sliding up or down the hill in front of my house. Some to be abandoned when their owners could no longer rev them up enough to climb. Then you dared to cover them over.

Please, leave me! I have invited Another to come into my life now. One who is much kinder and gentler. He’ll brings me flowers. You tried to kill them. He’ll smiles on me with golden light and replace the dark frowns from your face.

Goodbye, Winter! Goodbye. 

Now!