Cocoon

They say, in wintertime
the heating will be more expensive,
it will skyrocket, you’ve started
to replenish frantically
your stock of warm socks,
you’ve piled up a long list of
memories, songs and poems
that you’ll warm your soul with,
you will talk again about
the bygone, lost but never forgotten
great snowy weather,
the empty trees will wince
in front of your deep desolation,
the dull sky will weigh like
a heavy cloak on your shoulders
making you feel defeated
by the flow of time’s little,
meaningless, unheroic
destiny… making you think
maybe you mixed up the film sets,
you entered the wrong door,
you will wait patiently like a caterpillar
in your cocoon of resignation
for spring’s smile to lit up again
from where she left off
while you will reinstate, fix
the messed-up order of the world
by disposing, emptying
the closet of the old
unnecessary things.

Francisc Edmund Balogh is a poet from London, UK. He is the winner of “The best single poem” prize at the I Colori Dell’Anima contest, 10th edition, 2022, Italy. Couple of Francisc’s works were included in the “The Poetry Tree” an anthology of contemporary poets from 105 countries that was presented at World Expo 2020 Dubai, in Lothlorien Poetry Journal’s anthologies from the UK, in “Brush Strokes 5”, an Australian 2024 poetry anthology, in “Bards Across the Pond” an anthology including the works of contemporary UK and US poets.