Ice and snow melt without a sound the stream awakes with a gentle rhyme
Willow branches dressed in tender green dot the scroll of space and time
The southern breeze brushes the old window frame carrying warmth from a distant clime
The overture of all things reborn composed by heaven in its prime
Swallows know their homing flight beneath the eaves they start to build anew
The ox walks to the waking field its hoofprints write a harvest true
A single wish is planted in my heart like a seed in earth bedewed
Awaiting time's most patient gift in autumn to be finally viewed
Spring returns to the land all things made new again
Mountains and rivers in splendor futures deep as ocean's reign
Spring returns to the land a world refreshed and bright
Shake off the dust of yesterday step into tomorrow's light
This is the fragrance of beginnings the reward of the turning wheel
With every farewell to the cold we find a stronger will to heal and feel