I was humming the song that never ends,
hoping it would outlast your disappointment
ringing underneath my skin


I started concentrating on the window,
looking beyond the glass,
towards the dark trees as they seemed to mock me
with their 	 s       

		     w       a        i

			        y        n

                                                            g



	teasing me into believing something could ever be better
				out there


then it started to snow


	flurries of confectioners sugar sprinkling the wind


		the ground seemed to open its mouth
to swallow the brilliance in the air


	I wanted to			r		u				n


to let the ground taste flesh
to roll around beneath those mocking trees,
	and tell them they have won!
				      that I would give into their temptations


petrified of frost,
	I knew he could never follow me


he continued to yell
as I opened every window to let in the magnificence


and all he could do was stand there,


						missing the point.

11/20/2006

Author's Note:

[and yet it did tonight]

I take that as a sign

Posted on 11/21/2006
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