When the trees are pink and white and the flowers are in bloom there can be no thoughts of darkness in my mind there is no gloom How can I think of death when surrounded by new life? There is harmony in nature not a single sign of strife The air carries a freshness born from winter's slow retreat and the brown and hardened ground soft and green beneath my feet My soul is stirred to action like a child, young and free with the dancing of the flowers and new buds among the trees © Mike Wise 3/13/2016