You tried to weather the cold with no jacket
that was a dangerous thing to do my dear
there are worse things
than fevers and frost
bit toes
it can be a precarious place here
shifting winds
colder than Colorado
snow falls and stays longer than a cast-iron skillet in an
old kitchen
the grievances of a thousand hurts
lay beneath the snow’s crest
it does not take much to conjure them up
the ghosts of what could have been can walk fields
longer than any continent
yet you walk here in this knee deep snow
expecting winter to walk out
like a dad who has had an affair
you think the warmth of your arms will
one day thaw what is frozen
bring the climate change needed
to heal and grow the underbrush
to break what should be truly broken
yes you were the light in the distance
the one that came through the break in the trees
but sometimes the one reaching out to help
gets pulled into the great abyss
you tried to weather the cold with no jacket
that was a dangerous thing to do my dear.
Note:
~For the record this is not about me.
It is people I have known
Hearts I have tried to love
Places I have walked away from
and my heart could not forget~.