Committed To Winter
There came no sun
Unrecognized impeached the source
No in time spring lifted us from sleeping
And the icicle ink
Wrote itself with frozen pens
When the chill in the world
Found there came no death in flames
And now we have spoken with the tongues of snowflakes
Low pressure in global zones
Frozen in the fear of late
Threat to the blizzard we are driven
Howling in the winds destruction's vivisection of hate
In silence we hear the screaming’s
Ignoring the words of bitten teeth
Speaking with the bitter bite of snow
All we know of is the dangerous of cold
All we know is the ice sheet
From which this life has now evolved
So we have chosen the numb rhythms of hail
El tormenta by our own description
Leaves the heart eaten by frost
And deceptions of heat in the vocabulary of love
If only a reminder would call to us
Produce some blood in the hands of promise
See how the suns of summer
Are now for sale
Too poor to help the fallen hero
Too small to claim life
But of gold and slavery’s redress
By its influence of fragile
Make the light drip to darkness
Commit then to winters birth
In the sniveling are these criticisms consumed
As they lay their claim to insolence
Ragged pest drunkards of a futures little worth
Think you that we should know this subliminal ice
This unspoken word on our haunted breath
Wrapped as we are in shivers language of goose bumps
An isolated crowd standing alone
In the freezing of a storm
Retire then to the crouching hearth
The broken window and shattered floor
Stones reflection of stolen warmth
Bides the time depletion
As insignificant flames burn to be blown out
Weep for the wail of ancient skin
This historical detention in the age of fear
Committed to winter
No in time spring will come to awaken us
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