Poem By Serenity Dumler-Beecher | Photographs by Paige Pelonis
In autumn, I felt like I had fallen with the leaves.
I felt low and out of place.
Lost to dread and worry for the future seasons,
Struggling to find myself and my way.
Winter felt cold and unfamiliar.
Where the time still moved,
But I remained the same.
Frozen in place, unable to see beyond the storm raging in my mind.
But once the seasons started to change again,
Thawing the fear in my heart,
And washing my doubts away with the rain,
I began to bloom with the coming flowers.
Spring helped bring me to life with possibilities.
Reviving the curiosity,
Recovering the joy,
Highlighting the possibilities long forgotten, withered from the harsh weather of the past.
Now, instead of fretting over whether summer will be a warm and comfortable embrace,
Or blazing, agonizing, newfound hell,
I choose to enjoy the Spring.
To bask in the emerging rays and the showers reviving life in myself.
To enjoy the changes of the seasons and all that they bring me.
