A Winters Chill

Winter’s chill creep’s up on us each year The unforgiving frost start’s to appear Spreading through the landscape With little warning, nothing can escape The dark encroaching on the daylight We are living in constant night The street lamp’s illuminating every pavement Helping cold soul’s to escape winter’s enslavement The site of the bellowing grey chimney smoke Reminds us that this is Mother Nature’s practical joke The burning wood and coal fueled fire’s Help’s us all to bond together as families and inspire Each other in admiring the majestic wonder of the cold Winter nights, that seem to completely take hold C.Hawkins 02/10/17