General Poetry posted April 24, 2024

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A chapter in the book Silent Voices

Winter Keeps

by Jessica Wheeler

A frozen ground keeps time at rest beneath the ice and frost. The bitter cold of winter drags, too slow, and I am lost. The plans we made eight springs ago, left for a rainy day. As winter keeps the spring from me, you wait so far away. I'll play along and watch the ground until the lilies grow. On ice and knees, obey the cold and pray it lets me go. Yet, piercing through my memory, are springs I've left behind. I've walked beyond the winter walls that trap my grieving mind. The winter's keep was never cruel, allowing me to stay. Where I am safe, pretending you just wait for me in May.