Forgiving Spring

With pops of color and a spring in my step

I'm ready to enter a new season of pep

Blossoms emerging, birds humming in trees

The warm wind rolling off our freshwater seas

With Erie to my West and Ontario above

I just can't wait for this season of love

While the world renews outside my window

I'm stuck inside school to teach and to grow

The minds of students while I dream of sunny days

If only they knew the joy of my ways

That learning should be outside not in a room

Instead, we're in here, in the dark and the gloom

The days are getting longer and the sun does stay out

But we are in here and I'm starting to doubt

When I'll again get to feel that embrace

Of rays touching down on the skin of my face

My students don't pay mind to the changes outside

I comment to the class and lead them with pride:

"Find yourself wandering outdoors much more often

You'll be happier, find peace, your soul will soften

See, I wish for you to see the joys of this earth

But you're here inside while the world has rebirth"

If only schools came with fewer screens and more space

We'd have a tender, more generous race

Of human beings being kind to each other

But now we have tablets, phones, and another

Thing to mention is the ease in the tension

That spring could bring us if we just paid attention

To how earth forgives winter with warmth and bright flowers

And adds to our days with birds and new hours

"So while we are here in this building together

Let's dream of green nature and what kind of weather

Waits outside to explore and for us to discover

That springs not so bad when we have one another"