Snow

Snow

I had just met you

The steam of our breaths

Still chased one another in

The hush snowfall.

Dreams of pines so vast

Their roots entwined in the earth and

Their branches holding each other up.

We would see them some day;

We would be them some day.

You cut your bangs too short

And wouldn’t let me see them

But I thought you

An angel still.

We wouldn’t kiss, but you would

Teach me how to lust so,

And I lost years in this timeless snow.

And now I gravely wonder as I slip

Down this downward spiral

Will I find you again

The real you

The icy gaze and the

Thawing smile

Will I whisper that curse again

The hopeful I love you

Will I find my way

Through untainted snow

To a bliss

Of not knowing

No, not remembering

        What I lost

        When the snow was gone?