In the blink of an eye,
everything that was once purely promising,
was lost to its most formidable and unforgiving foe,
change.

She was once a survivor,
now a compromised victim,
her lifeless body laying on the echoing crosswalk,
leaking into a puddle of artistic passion and time.

Now, sluggish snow crystals fall, singing goodbye,
sheathing carefully a blanket over tender flesh,
while I give in to her frozen embrace,
desiring to linger across timeless ages,
waiting for change to grant me passage into her soul.