Weight of Spring

Saving daylight, losing hours
you can never ever have back

Debts paid down but not in full
as liens come due without warning
and the price
is still to be tallied

Pay it
and pay it
and pay it...
it's more than I owe
but there's no satisfying
the judgment

I may owe my soul
to the company store
where it costs more
to eat than one makes
but you simply cannot afford
to take your custom
down the road

so spring ahead
fly
leap forward through time
don't count the minutes
begrudge the years

look back laughing
learning
how much is yet to be learned

save your fear
for things of true terror
bury ordinary horrors
in everyday humors

tears
can dampen the soil
only a deluge
can wash away
the undergrowth
but more than fire
can scorch
to the core

Fall back
remember
the history is not meaningless
nor doomed to repetition
there is reason
in the play

you may lose
more than you were willing
to sacrifice
but do not crucify
yourself

enough hangs
in the balance
spend the time like a miser
while away
while
away

waves of untold sorrow
will pound
they will recede
to crash again
and ebb yet again
endless cycles
of tide and pull

fog bows
to wisps of wind and light
shadows fleet

life
and lore
make promises
and fortell fortunes
won and lost

seize on the hope
save daylight
while you may