Dormant

Cold and Alone-
A dissipating frigidity,
Each flake separate, distinct-
Beauty and Nuisance-
A living apothecary of jeweled tones,
A shameless accumulation on the ground-
Together-
A blissful blanket of so much purity,
Freezing so much of the Earth’s evil-

Cold and Alone-
My heart is a permafrost,
Wishing we were not apart-
Beauty and Nuisance-
You hold me in your rapture,
Without your body on mine, I feign-
Together-
We make each other’s bed,
Warming ourselves to live again-

You once told me I was Beauty,
And still I believe I am more Nuisance-
My soul drives you to new Cold,
And leaves me to myself, Alone-
But together- Oh together-
We succeed so gloriously this way;
The way the snowfall does, must-
Learning and Growing-
One together-

Some have said that winter is death,
Intending to prove that life simply stops-
We know better- Know each other better-
Don’t we…