Natural Disaster

I would hibernate in sadness

Until the slightest peck of a Spring thrush

Made me throw off the dark and heavy blankets,

Never again to feel the hunger

For there was a bounty on my doorstep

Magicked during the night

I ate until it turned to sand in my mouth

And delight sank to deep despair

Nothing could satisfy as that first taste-

I burned the forest down in desperation

For the fear of emptiness overwhelmed me

Only to emerge from my ravenous trance
Naked in a dead  world

Devoid of season and of comfort

And with no green seed to plant anew,

As I had kept nothing for the winter