The Only Blue Left is From the Frost on My Fingers

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Sometimes winter comes

Earlier than expected.

I wait on the side of the road

For your red civic to come down the street.

I stuff gloved hands

Into deep pockets,

The scarf I threw on

Not doing much for the cold.

Missing bright summer days

When we'd

Stick our hands out of the top

Of your old blue convertible.

Wind brushed our fingers

Going 90 on a 45 mile road.

But summer fades to winter,

And sometimes it comes earlier than expected.

I wait on the side of the road

For your new car,

But my hands grow cold as I wait

And your red civic never comes,

Leaving nothing but my

Blue, frosted fingers

In the cold wind of winter.

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