Winter's Freeze

The wind tears through the barren trees An onslaught now of winter's freeze To shake the house in dead of night As if for sleep there was no right The people lie in bed awake Wishing they'd had a better fate Thinking back not long ago When daytime came but not with snow The days were warm and worry free Not filled with cold nor misery But now the time has come at last To taste the fury of winter's blast But inside now the house still glows And eases the bite of winter's blow A refuge now a place to stay Through the worst of any day