Folkloric

I always keep up

my indoor white lights

until there is enough light outside

to make them no longer

so desperately essential.

Put up for the holidays,

they help me make it

through the bleakest tail-end

of Winter,

and when I do finally

bid them farewell,

and give them my thanks,

I know Springtime,

for me,

has finally come.

Not long now!

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