Thoughts

Snow Adventure - A Poem

No one could explain the sight I saw

That day when we were alone

The sun setting in a distant sky

With the wind chilling us to the bone

Never had we three wandered this far

Down the road, into the woods

It appeared to be covered in white

With our footprints marking where we stood

Deeper into the forest we trumped

Thigh-deep in snow, we were

My brother showed us his makeshift bridge

He had made out of an old cooler

We hopped across the now frozen brook

As we picked and drag sticks along

Never before had we gone this far

For it was considered very wrong

The trees were bear and the snow was high

And the world seemed to become darker

My siblings were wholly unaware

Of the growing cold that was bitter

We reached the top of the forest hill

Where the abandoned tracks still laid

I dug until I found the rail ties

As my young brother and sister played

Finally I looked to the darkened sky.

The color was no longer a blue.

It had now turned to a changing shade

Of a shadowy violet hue.

Suggesting that we be on our way,

I assumed the air would grow colder.

The others groaned as I turned to go,

But followed the one that was older.