Winter comes but once a year

When sharp wind grazes skin

Like a blade.

Deep sorrow drapes the stagnant sky

Freezing tears to snow.

The Heavens weep,

Tears frozen in time

For the Earth is dead

      Sorrow

             Darkness

                       Sobbing

But eyes run dry of tears from the skies

Replaced by spreading smiles in the soil

When life fractures the barrenness

Watered with merry tears

Before all comes alive once more.

They hope spring is eternal

So they dance in the sun

But fear has rooted deep within

Since nothing is forever.

Time drifts aimlessly by

Until the day when anon,

Cold claws grip

The Earth again.