Ashes In the Snow

Around a winter fire’s flames That in the night did glow, We sat and waited for the words of "Once, long long ago..." The wind roamed through the forest trees As beams of moonlight fell. My fingers twisted in the snow As midnight cast its spell. We saw the graves of ancient kings Now resting with their scars, We heard the legends of their lives Beneath the winter stars. We watched as poets penned each phrase In words that still do last, And saw the dreamers dream their dreams, The dreamers of the past. So years have gone, and I look back At ashes in the snow, Where fires burned till late at night With tales of long ago. The wind still roams among those trees And stars still come at eve, And when the winter dusk returns I don my coat and leave. I walk the oh so well known path Still white with timeless snow, And far ahead, between the trees, I see the fire’s glow. As once I waited in the ring For night to cast its spell, As once I listened to the tales It’s now my turn to tell.