Don't You Dare Be Far Too Happy

 This is today's weather ...above freezing!

Then I checked the forecast and it seemed to exult in warning "don't you dare be far too happy!"

Don’t you dare be far too happy

Sullen naysayer sighs

And holds up doom-and-gloom’s forecast

Beneath sun-smiling skies

Don’t you be too light of heart, love

The darksome cynic warns

And misses the song of the lark

Because he fears the storms

Don’t you dare be far too jolly

The glow’ring grumblers sob

In second cups of woe-is-me

While sunbeams dance and bob

Don’t you be too sure of summer

Broods the blue pessimist

While big sky is full of laughter

And earth is golden heaven-kissed

© Janet Martin