Everlasting Spring

It lifts the human spirit as
few other events of Nature are
capable of, the timeless assurance
that what has passed will
inevitably resurge, like the
proverbial Phoenix; perish only
to return in a blaze of glorious
life renewed. That eternal
assurance forms the bedrock
of hope and trust, that the
revolving cycle of death and
birth are universal to our
primal existence extending to
the present and surging into the
future. A colossal, unfathomable
clockwork of endlessness of
which we represent a minuscule 
afterthought, but one we
experience throughout our brief
appearance in time and place on
this planet, feeling the warm earth
in our hands as spring returns
and we plant, nurture and glean
with Nature's patient tutelage.