Sonnet For Spring

As days grow longer, melancholy creeps An uninvited guest, which winter brings It dims the candle my mind tightly clings Consuming light, from darkness whence he leaps In doldrums dark, my heart held captive weeps Held hostage by north winds that bite and sting Entombed by winter's chill, awaiting spring Time slowing to a crawl whilst nature sleeps But then one day in March, an equinox The light begins to overtake the dark In color, daydreams dawn as dark does fade Sad melancholy flees through fields of phlox Now freed from winter's bonds, my heart embarks To chase spring's sun into the summer shade. by Daniel Turner