When Winter Comes

In May a spray of snow entombs the yard.

How surreal, this scene of green

Transformed to white! A glacial gust proclaims        

What this sudden change must mean:

Sometimes winter comes in spring.

So offer flowers while time allows;

God supplies each fragrant bloom.

A grateful heart would never plan to wave

Wilted life near winter’s tomb. …

Sometimes winter comes in spring.

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them” (Ecclesiastes 12:1).