The First Snowfall
Somewhere, way up high,
In the upper atmosphere,
A raindrop starts to crystallize,
No bigger than a tear.
And when this starts to happen,
As everybody knows,
That little drop of rain
Transforms into snow.
The cloud then released the flake,
On its journey down to earth
And the first snowfall of winter
Was given a new birth.
Down on the playground below,
Little Torrie stared at the sky
And spying that unique snowflake,
Let out a happy sigh.
She watched it drifting down,
With the excitement of being young,
Positioning her body
To have it land upon her tongue.
Four feet from the ground
It melted in her mouth;
For the past seven years
It hadn’t snowed this far south.
Now deep inside her soul,
This snowflake will always be
As the clouds from high above
Let thousands of others free.
Torrie was satisfied that night,
Watching the ground turning white,
Knowing the flake that started it all
She rescued from its fall.
Copyright © Joe Flach | Year Posted 2010
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