Sitting here 
and watching 
as snow 
ever so
slowly falls 
I’m reminded 
of how 
truly small 
heartache is 
when snowflakes 
and snowfalls 
bring halt
but I
and this 
gnawing loss
stops nothing 
clocks tick
people go 
about business 
all unaware
that the 
world’s ending 

I was thinking 
of you today 
but not you 
today but yesterday
the you who
you have become 
is as surprising
as the squirrel 
I watch daily 
touching new snow 
familiar but uncertain 
as to how 
or even if 
it should try
to find the 
buried treasure beneath 

I can no
more place a
snowflake upon a
tree than worry
about the folly
of man for 
neither one have 
I been charged 
so allow them 
I do to
go and watch 

This sadness 
cast overboard 
to lighten 
now stuck
on rock
or crag
down below 
and unseen 
tethers me
to here
free I
am not 
just circling 
like some 
debris around 
a drain

In a boat
on an ocean
one that’s calm
no sail or
oar no wind
or current just 
water and me
always the same 
boat as thee
but the sea
it changes see