"Scenes From A Vanishing Snowscape"

White snow blackened by exhaust
Automobiles painted with dirty remnants
Of what used to be beautiful
When it first fell.

Half melted men stand in front yards
Button eyes and tree limb arms falling
Into patches of ice and dirt
On bloodless battlefields.

And the young soldiers cry
Their hard packed ammunition run out
While their mothers soothe them
With hot chocolate and cookies.

A girl of 15 winter dances
Madly across the drifting snow
Stomping out the name of a boy
She'd written their yesterday.

While a boy helplessly in love
Makes her snow cones
Sprinkled with sugar coated hearts
Saying "kiss me' and "I'm sorry".

And somewhere shoveling snow
A lonely man wonders
Which thaws the quickest
The cold ice or his colder heart.

While watching him at her window
A woman smiles wistful
Wondering if today is the day
To tell him she melts in his presence.

A heart drawn on steamed window
She returns to the kitchen
And the husband she no longer knows
As the one she'd married.

A radio announces the report
Sunny skies forecast today
Soon the snow will be gone
Hearts in winter will find the sun again...