snow ...
the winter comes
and dresses the world
in icy wedding veils
draped over the tree break
and cascading down
to the frozen river
all the way to
the bespeckled red farmhouse
where once we lived
and loved
and in the confused white confetti
billowing all around these
remembered paths
i recall the days
we found the joys
of talk and touch
living as we did
not in perfect harmony at all
but more like two threads
of sound
woven into
a single chord
that sustained
a note of
common hope
but winter brings
the rage of cold
that beats and beats
against the heart
and year by year
your eyes became
sharp blue crystals
of hoary frost
that could not see
beyond the moment
and so the future froze
into unchanging spears of ice
that pierced your soul
and stole from you
the promises that
lovers make
and left you helpless
beneath the drifts
of flake on flake
until you froze complete
in the bitterness
of solitude and wasted waiting
and nothing remained
beyond the snow
until at last
in an avalanche of dark despair
i knew i loved you
but i could not love you
anymore
and dresses the world
in icy wedding veils
draped over the tree break
and cascading down
to the frozen river
all the way to
the bespeckled red farmhouse
where once we lived
and loved
and in the confused white confetti
billowing all around these
remembered paths
i recall the days
we found the joys
of talk and touch
living as we did
not in perfect harmony at all
but more like two threads
of sound
woven into
a single chord
that sustained
a note of
common hope
but winter brings
the rage of cold
that beats and beats
against the heart
and year by year
your eyes became
sharp blue crystals
of hoary frost
that could not see
beyond the moment
and so the future froze
into unchanging spears of ice
that pierced your soul
and stole from you
the promises that
lovers make
and left you helpless
beneath the drifts
of flake on flake
until you froze complete
in the bitterness
of solitude and wasted waiting
and nothing remained
beyond the snow
until at last
in an avalanche of dark despair
i knew i loved you
but i could not love you
anymore
