The Winter

Did you see the sky today?

Did you see the way it trembled, anticipating the fail?

Did you see the way it let go?

The thin flakes spiralling down,

Stacking up in a glorious display of colourless beauty.

Cold, heartless, beautiful.

Did you see the way the snowflakes landed peeacfully on everything?

Did you see the way it kept falling, kept going, after it seemed,

The sky should have lost everything?

Obscuring the dirt of the cars,

Hiding away issues and problems,

With the weight of its fall.

Did you feel the water seeping in, surrounding you?

Did you feel the simple joy, washing over you?

Did you breathe in the cool, clear air?

Obscuring the little things,

Becoming a larger, prettier one.

Uniting the land into one beautiful plain.

Did you think of laughter?

Did you see the snowfolk?

Did you dream of playing?

The sky has brought cold and joy.

A blanket across the land keeping it safe,

Until it is ready to understand the warmth again.

Did the snow make you think of safety?

Did it make you think of simpler things, with its simplicity?

Did it make you wish you were with me?

Snow has fallen, ice is calling.

Strong and weak.

Expanding and melting.

Do you think you are like the snow, falling, falling, freeing itself?

Do you think you are like the ice, strong, weak, and slipping?

Do you think you are like the leaves, changing, fallen, forgotten, and left behind?

Be the snow, and the winter.

Winter is weak and cold.

It is strong and enduring.

It is warmth and laugher and tears.

Be the winter.

There is more to life than either side.

Good and bad,

Happy and sad.

You can be both.

Focus on both sides.

You don't have to be only one.

Be both.

You can be the winter.

Did you forget I love you?

Did you forget you love you?

Did you forget to come back to Earth, after you went to explore the world above?

Don't forget the warm and cold.

The weak and bold.

The falling down and getting back up again.

You can do this.

I know you can.

You can be the winter.

You must be.

You have to get back up again.

Won't you come sit by the fire?