NATURE Poem: The Elements of Comfort, by Ekam Bedi

I always knew when the winter came crawling by,
As I could feel the cold creeping up my spine,
My dark hair blowing in the wind,
And the blue scarf wrapped around my neck as tightly as ever.

Whenever I felt it was going to rain,
The thought of having my pink umbrella kept me sane,
So I always knew I would be safe,
And wouldn’t get wet, even in this pouring rain.

Whenever the sun would start to shine a little brighter,
I’d feel the trail of summer becoming lighter,
And there it was, the pool parties and late evening swims,
I always had my swimming goggles to save my eyes from water getting in.

From the falling of orange and red leaves on the road to the crunching of gravel,
It had all foretold, the coming of autumn,
That we all had to now to wait and watch,
My cream-colored coat was there to bring me some warmth without a doubt.

And when the sun would glow and the flowers on the cherry tree would bloom,
I’d have a Taylor Coleridge poem in my hand, reading it,
Sitting under the shady tree and the cool land, being over the moon.