It's Snowing but the Leaves are Still Green

I was sitting in class when this occurred, it's been a hot year and the leaves are still green even as our first snow fall decided to come down yesterday afternoon.

I’m never sure about this world anymore

As winter arches her broken back

Throwing her arms desperately

At the last

Clinging jaws of summer

 

Autumn sits back and watches

 

I think Winter is angry

But I can see in her icy eyes

Where fear spreads like summers best

                    Wild fires

                (she knows her snow covered curves are melting)

And well we won’t fight to save her

 

Spring is worried she is next

 

Seasons use to take turns

Like well-behaved school children

Learning the value of

                                        Sharing is Caring

 

Now winter is fighting

To show up in this place

I can hear her wind in my ears

Begging for my help

 

Winter first asked for my body

One ordinary late night

I wasn’t so inclined to give it to her

My eyes are already snowing

 

I don’t want to feel her

                                Hands around my throat

Fingers shoved into my mouth

Cooling my lungs with her arctic winds

 

I don’t want her icicles

On my eyelashes

Or blizzards nipping at my nose

 

But even in her dying form

Winter will always take victory from summers clutches

                And maybe this is naive

                                But

 

What’s Christmas without Snow.

Author's Note

everything here is intentional