Open the Window

Open the window

and let in the sunshine.

Put away the heavy

jackets and fold

your scarf away.

Forget the memory

of snow and cold,

of bundled hell on

the frozen train

platform on mornings

when it seemed sunshine

never actually existed.

Shake the chill from

your bones and inhale

the newly minted air

wandering though

your open windows.

Remember how the

sun’s rays crawled across

the walls through the

day and lengthen the

shadows of the things

you own.

See how warm it all

looks with spring sunlight

glinting off a forgotten

winter corner of dread.

The freshness of sounds

that were completely

shut out behind the closed

windows of the cold now

echo up to your ears and

make you remember.

Children playing,

cars roaring,

music blaring,

laughter,

all though the open windows.