Just One

frost forms thick on all around my feet crunch on frozen ground and what I've known for oh, so long thaws and drips with morning sun the wide open space now closes in fenced and barbed like old Berlin my mind skates on ice that's thin what once was won't come again in the mountains where wild things prowl packs of coyotes with their low growl for miles I can see the here and now and our love that now goes south pictures painted in darkest hues times we spent, just me and you monsoons came and drenched the sky's blue leaving just one when it was through