Winter's Wind

She woke up alone again this morning The sun rose up over the trees again She looked out through the frosty window And felt the chill of winter’s wind She put on her coat and walked out of the cabin And reached to pick dried flowers she had grown Carefully she put them in her basket And walked down the trail that led her to the stone She brushed away the leaves that had gathered And shivered one more time from the cold She lost everything that ever mattered Shedding tears from a story she never told She heard a little voice say where’s daddy? And saw the face of a child who had grown She shook away the vision from her memory And cried again from the sorrow of a broken home Years ago he left her And a little girl who never understood The story she knew was such a sad one She tried to explain but never really could