Winter's Ghost

Memory in dissipation, like the hoarfrost’s delicate cling
The supplemental envelopment of winter’s prosthetic embrace
In exchange for the fire’s warmth, I delve into memory
Nostalgia replaced hope as reality replaces dreams

The spruce, snow weighted
As my troubled heart succumbs to burden
The saplings crushed beneath the snow fall
As my recollection is obscuring
In white wash I'm saturated and satiated by its allure
The nothingness drowns out the loss known
Before this frozen world

This dormant slumber
In peace and waiting
Laid in repose
For breath abating

In stillness seen
And frigid fingers
Where aspiration is frozen
And memory lingers

Crystals cling upon wintering larch
Roots encased in a tomb of snow
The shrouds of ice in a world of stasis
Where green has faded and will not grow

The haunting spectres of life and love lost
Break the crypt of the past
To roam free the frozen world
To roam free at last