So are you enjoying the beauty of Winter, anticipating the coming of Spring?

Though some may say; that seasons come and seasons go

And there is nothing new to bring!

One year leads to another, and the cycle just goes on and on.

Some people hear only the croak and caw of the Corvids,

but not the Robins song.

Do you see the arrival of snow, like a white blanket over the land?

And do you find yourself in awe of the beauty,

where Jack Frost has laid his hand?

Or do you just feel the cold and see only disruptions all around?

And do you curse that ice beneath your feet, the slipping and the sliding,

and the falling to the ground?

Have you marvelled at the Snowdrops, like a herald of the spring?

As they silently unfurl, like tiny pearls of hope, and the Crocuses that catch your eye,

as if natures carefully colouring in.

But do you also see the rubbish, in our hedges and our streets?

The paper and the plastic,

That amasses at our feet?

Do you simply discard all that packaging, you bought your fast food in?

Or are you the type of person,

who puts rubbish in a bin?

Will THIS YEAR bring the changes, that our Earth so badly needs?

Those promised changes in our habits?

Is it possible achieve?

Can we not see that we should not have ‘digital clouds’ to contain all our data?

And that the saving of water and energy

Simply cannot wait ’till later?

It is not just our selfish species that calls this planet home

So how long before we finally learn,

We can’t survive here on our own!