Gray Winter
It’s all gray today
As it was yesterday
And the day before that
It will be tomorrow, too
I have complaints against winter
But this grayness is the worst
A day so gray depresses
And clouds out light
Gray makes it worse
For most all of us
It looks like hopelessness
It feels like sadness
It fades us like death
Color cruelly wiped away
Replaced by monotonous gray
Some paint their spaces gray
And add to the gloom
At least in paint there is control
But what’s to be done
When the very air is gray
It comes in heavy here
Instead of white bright snow
And casts its monochromatic pall
The lead player in winter
Gray is rude with attitude
It spreads itself over colors
And people, too
Gray is maybe not a color at all
It’s an emotion or lack thereof
It’s heavy load, damp and cold
Like ice it seizes us
Pushes us down
For too many days
It’s not loosened the grip
It smothers our happiness
While it denies us the sun
All the pretty colors of
Spring, summer and fall
In winter they all
Slip away within the gray coil
Color drips off the landscape
And leaves overwhelming gray
Gray, gray, forever, damnit, all day
Or maybe a week or most of a month
Please just go, get away
Days upon days
Filled only with gloomy gray
