Gray Moods Poem by Barry Middleton

Another gray and lifeless day
is all it takes;
for winter always brings a mood
of dark defeat.

The haze is drifting off the bay;
so I pretend
the air is cold and fires are lit.
I know despair.

It is a guest that stayed too long.
As seasons change,
emotions rise and fall like waves,
and rise again.

And winter never fails, despite
the temperature,
whenever days are gray and bare,
my eyes will burn.