Youth Deferring

It has become a territorial 
dispute of time and place,
order and procedure, when a
grumpy elder refuses the timid
courtesy anticipated by a 
younger, fresher replacement
prepared to render aid to the
birth of a new season. Nature
could intervene to mediate
the impasse but appears
resolved to allow the contestants
to work out their differences.
The arrival of the Spring Equinox
is regarded as rank impudence
by hoary Winter, delaying
exit, ever interminably, but
the endless snow squalls really
do test our faith that incoming
Spring takes her mission
sufficiently seriously to mount
the challenge required to
move crotchety Winter off
his self-assigned perch of
repugnant, delayed obstinacy.