Blessing

Snow gathered momentum to a chorus of confusion Echoes of tortuous silence A vacuum of restless reprieve Like moist drift sand it spread its treacherous message Opened trap doors of innocence Coalesced sinkhole’s dredged mud Answering unspoken questions it decanted crystals of pain Touched sentient clouds in transit Sounded fog horns in distant mist Before spring melted its steadfast grip on a slippery path Night fell onto wild thunderous icicles for Shadows beginnings and irretrievable end Under cover of ice in the underworld of impermanent frost The journey man brushed defeat In cold blood’s sad circular flow Endless void refused to halt rock bottom’s crushing arrest Torched dreams once light faded Shed darkness oblivion and surrender Snow boots and shoe strings draped a noose of relief Suffocation took one ultimate breath Embraced nothingness and final demise And yet the midnight sun sent just one single glimmering ray A threadbare rope ladder of shivering hope to guide Him to remove the pick axe from a lost mindless brain A comet sparked fire from rage and ember from blizzards The moon croaked on its mocking laughter’s disguise For an avalanche had protected a glimpse of his soul 22nd January 2020