Ice Breaker

The limbs of the tree are now cold and barren as they reach up into the sky above searching for what was lost, as the playful, fallen leaves are now gone, taken away with the winds of time. Nothing but a gray cloudiness overtakes the skies the warm sunlight disappears more and more each day as the darkness closes in. Frigid winds come down from the North, bringing with them a reckless abandon with no care for the warmth of the human heart. Cold raindrops evolve into icy snowflakes that fall for miles before they reach the earth and are caught by the barren arms of the tree. The world is now silent in the grace of wintertime. A stubborn chill surrounds the human heart trying to instill itself into every chamber yet, it cannot end the beating drum when there is a song of happiness dwelling there forevermore. Some days the sun still shines, yet, it changes nothing the warmth lingers somewhere else, until the sun decides to stay a little more each day. Eventually, the warm-hearted will melt away the frost around them. The frozen ice will begin to thaw and disappear, soon a small crack forms, and spreads across separating the ice where a trickle of water is finally free to flow out into the warmth of springtime. And the world comes back to life, re-awakening and reborn again.