Enticed entreated tricked
Thin snow on thinner ice
Trust once betrayed will never
Shortest day
Three crows fight; one dies
Mist rises through the leafless trees
Nobody smiles at me
Fireworks carved white scars
Fireworks carved white scars across black sky, silhouetting bright behind dark battlements. And fireworks behind her eyes. There, look! The girl she loves is back, she’s back! But the fireworks faded as she pushed her way through the smoky crowd and she saw it was not her. Not her. Again.
When I am old
When I am old
and can no longer run
I will stand by the road
when the marathon passes
and offer high fives
for the touch of hand on hand
I held ice tight
I held ice tight in my hand
water trickled from my fist
to my forehead
Then my hand was empty
but my fist remained
blood frozen in its veins
I rubbed knuckles on my eyes
my heart drum noised
my temples throbbed
All memories swirled in snow
all memories swirled
in snow
snow smokes
snow smokes across the sunset
my eyesight starts to fail
tomorrow grows ever distant
You were in my dreams
You were in my dreams all night long
In the day I dreamed to be in yours
Do you dream of me or with me?
Come in, stranger
outside air burning pepper cold
house though tumbled blanket warm
take off your hat, your gloves and shoes
be calm and sit and close your eyes
tomorrow is tomorrow and we will deal with that
for now feel safe and sleep
pale cherry
pale cherry lips
windchill numbed
eyes spark black
as storm clouds approach
all this must end, must end
Yesterday winter held
Yesterday winter held below the horizon
Chill dawn hears silent locks unlocking
Misted wraiths stealthy gyre at daybreak
Winter rises from hard fields
simonsalento 