Mourning Skies

Snowfall

She stepped into the wide field

Stretched out her arms and smiled

As the brilliant snowflakes fell

Around like a halo

And she looked like an angel

That first time she saw snow

The flakes floated into her hair

Making a sort of crown on her head

And I walked up to her

And wrapped her in my embrace

As I held my snow queen

Face to face.

We watched the first snowfall

Every winter from then on

Until my snow queen found her place

In the sky where she belonged.