Winter by Dan-Vy Nguyen

Winter by Dan-Vy Nguyen

All the new thinking is about loss.

Everyone is so pessimistic,

Focused on pain and suffering

Rather than the good things in life.

The good things in life are what get us through,

But what is good anymore?

Everyone has a different opinion.

Is it cake on a birthday, a lullaby to sleep, a hug from a friend?

I don’t know anymore.

People don’t seem to be doing good things anymore.

It’s now a pleasant surprise

When someone does an act of kindness.

Kindness. Virtue. Random.

Helping an old lady cross the street

But, oh, how cross she becomes when you offer!

“I can do it myself.”

Can’t we all?

We all want to be independent.

Able to do everything on our own

And even not wanting to help others

When they are clearly in need.

But what about need… what about it?

I remember a time when I was not in need.

Is that even possible

But now here I am, so needy.

When I received bad news about a friend,

I thought about how it would affect me.

I thought about what I needed,

Instead of what she needed.

And now I find myself in this field of flowers.

The tall grass bushes at my knees,

Making them itchy.

The sun is out but there is show on the ground.

It is odd to have show this time of year.

We did not get any snow during the winter,

But here we are in the middle of April,

With the ground covered in show.

And it brings be back

To all of those good times

In the winter.

The clean smell of snow makes me remember,

All the time spent with family.

Sitting around by the TV watching movies,

Thankful that I have a family,

Knowing that I’ll be missing this one day.