The sun is staring
at the snow today

The flakes holding on
as if to say

That they're frightened
by the journey back
to the sky.

*** we all forget
what it's like
to be there.

The house burned down
but the floor remains

The vines and the grass
will take it within


Back to the place
where it began.

*** we all start out
with both these hands

a part of this land.

The ocean holds our thoughts
between its waves

The sand reminds us
that we will change.

*** we are but a grain
to the greater land

But that tide will pull us in
so to understand

The beauty

Of you and me.