Winter brings crystal tears
that forms on eyelashes
that never once blinked
Eyelashes upon eyes
that stare silently
at your retreating back
Unblinking in a snow storm
Winter brings a quietness
where I stared at your back
and yelled
Don't walk away, please stay
I'm so cold without you
Landscapes of white are faded
taking away the sparkle of the jewel
Don't walk away, please stay
I'm screaming silently
to a retreating back
in a snowstorm
a back with shoulders hunched
a back which has no face
a back which is retreating
from an unmarked time or place
as snowflakes fall upon hair
they melt beneath the burn
no breathe could I take to lie
The cold I expected would make
it a lesson that I should learn
Instead the mist of Winter
escapes my frozen lips
all that came out as a whisper
was this,
*Turn! Please, just turn.
It's less cold if you look as you walk away otherwise you leave the other in a perpetual Winter