April Fool's Day Hoax
Snow has returned
in an early April Fool's Day hoax.
"Don't we deserve a reprieve?"
We ask the TV weatherman.
We plead. We coax.
But the grass and trees
that were turning green
have become instead
a cold, soft, white scene.
Spring is shy
against winter's hold.
This frozen air
is getting old!
I know the snow
will melt before long,
but until then,
all this white is wrong!
Let's hope this is
winter's last wheezing gasp.
Pray the sun breaks through
winter's clinging grasp.
I suppose
I will love spring
all the more.
When it returns
outside my door.
Like others,
I have a habit of wanting
what I have not,
instead of being grateful
for what I have got.
