A Fading Dream Poem by Lynn Anne Brown

The Days are Lengthening
The Calendar has been checked off
The News announced
That Spring had come
Yet Winter Stays
Refusing
To pull the blankets back
What have you been dreaming?
My Lady
That has kept you
Abed so long
Is it a nightmare
You can't escape
Or a promise
You hold tight
While we remember
How much
We want you back
How much we need you
How much you need us
To Grow up
And to care for you
As you have cared for us
To remember
That you are our mother
Our progenitor
And that without you
We are nothing more
Than a fading
Dream
Of what
Could have been