The day of black snow

One day a girl goes out to find that the snow is coming down black

Winter was always my favorite season

Every year I watch from my window

Waiting for winter's first snow to fall

I waited patiently for days on end

Until one day I was finally rewarded

Excited, I leap out of the house

And hold out my hands to the snow

But as it fell slowly around me

I noticed its dirty, blackened color

As it gathered in my hands

I began to feel ferocious pain

I quickly dropped the snow from my hands

though they continued to burn with fiery pain

The snow began to fall more swiftly

And everywhere is touched

My skin began to fiercely burn

Scared, I ran back into my house

But the pain was slow to fade away

I don't know why the black snow fell

Only that it continued all day

And when spring finally returned

Every plant was blackened and dead

Though the black snow never fell again

And my burns had healed sometime after

Winter was no longer my favorite season

And snow never again brought joy to me

From then on every year

When the weather once again got cold

Even if I stayed within my house

The scars on my body would begin to hurt

Never letting me forget the day of black snow