You Can't Fool Mother Nature

Monday, November 5, 2018

I’ve spent the past week catching up after my writers’ conference with little time to write a blog post, so I’m celebrating the extra hour of sleep by using a poem I wrote in March 2013. Here it is.
Spring Forward, Fall Back
Spring forward
To save an hour of daylight.
Put it in the bank
Until the dark of winter.


Fall back
Into the evening gloom.
Open the vault
To lengthen the days.


Empty the treasure chest
Of sunlight and illusion.
Evening hours borrowed from morning,
And then returned.

No hour gained,
No hour lost,
Each day still with twenty-four
To run its course.

Minds are easily deceived,
But you can’t fool Mother Nature.
 

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