A Winter Day

I watched the sun rising As my thoughts danced about Like an unfettered kite Lost in a hurricane The smell of freshly fallen snow Filled the world outside my door As I grabbed my coat And went for my morning walk The fields Once filled with brown grass Now appeared like a white blanket Haphazardly cast over the land This was the first winter snow The beginning of what was to come It was like a fortuneteller speaking In cold, icy words Today I chose the path to the left Which led by the ice-covered river Which had frozen over Several weeks before While the sun darted about So very high in the sky That try as it might Couldn’t warm the earth or me It was a winter’s day And no matter how hard I tried Without you There was no warmth to be found