A Need for Spring

I am feeling the need for spring,
fully aware of the value of winters,
of snow filling the water tables,
of the rest needed to fuel the growing season,
aware of all that, still, I have sat in winter
a bit too long, laid fallow, a slave to age and maladies
of mind and body and worse, spirit, somehow missing
an entire growing season, and now, eager as a child
for the first warm day.