Acolyte

Snow

Snow

January 5th, 2022

Does this agony ever abate?

It's been 5 months,

I watch the snow fall outside,

I can feel my heart sink under the frigid,

I watch the snow fall on the water,

Sitting right on top,

Then melt away into the waves,

The same way I had four Years earlier.

When you met my Family,

When you charmed my mother,

When you said you loved me,

No body warned me,

That the departure,

Would make even snow look Saddening,

Nobody reminded me more of you,

Nothing reminded me more of you,

Than watching the snow fall on the crisp asphalt,

Watching the first flake, cascade onto my over heated skin.

I peered up at the snow,

And I thought to myself,

Do these memories brand you too?

Or does she mean more to you now?

Than I ever had?

Does the snow make you think of Magical Moments?

Or does it make you wishful for what could have been?

My mom Warned me of the river, of tears,

My family warned me of the waves,

My friends warned me of the tectonic plates of emotions,

But never about the Lake of Snow,

And truth be told,

If you went back Four years,

To the snow, that falls,

I'd do it all over again,

Knowing what the outcome would be now.

But this time, I'd memorize the snow,

As it stuck in your hair,

The same way I memorized your piercing blue eyes,

So as the snow liquifies,

And the winter Lifts,

Raring for Spring,

I hope that this pain,

Lifts with it,

And much like Spring,

Hope Blooms in my chest,

That snow was so beautiful,

But so can a lilac blooming,

For the first time, in years.