Seasonal Affected

We welcomed the sunlight

No longer counting hours

Until its disappearance

Knowing its presence

Would push along completion

Of tasks set aside,

During the long nights

When nightmares wandered ground

And our steps were feeble

In getting away.

We absorbed the sun’s rays

Feeling spirits lift

With time spent in open air

Beneath the open sky-

Relishing the feeling

Of buoyancy

Floating along

Until exhaustion sets in

With the ecstasy of

A day well done-

Sleeping beneath a moon

With clear dreams

Of brilliant light

And wide calm oceans.

We knew the steps

The repetition we would face

And still we moved along

With the thoughts

That all was new,

Not expecting the darkness to encroach

As the winter season approached

Once more,

Marking another trip

Around the sun,

That we would take for granted

In the end.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet. novelist, and freelance journalist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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