when you catch yourself staring out the window
eyes tracking snowflakes. counting the seconds.
searching for meaning in seasonal change
looking for patterns spiraling in any direction but
down
seeing the sky’s just ******* hallmark card covers
when it’s half past one and you’re
wishing
wishing
wishing for
that snow
to bury
the campus. the people. the ******** assignments.
in something so cold it stings your fingers into feeling
enough to dig out of self-inflicted snow drifts
in something so bright and white that it
washes the grey stains from your eyes
when you let it go let it go let it go
and sit on the slushy side walk – only frozen
but without the ******* feel-good Disney songs
that happily work out ever after
in the happiest place on earth
when you don’t even care enough to finish the poem.
don’t.