Love Or Hate It
"For someone's joy is often someone else's despair" by Poet X
Excited children grin and cheer to see the snow;
a winter wonderland indeed for them to play -
their parents are not quite as pleased to see it though
(but memories of joy remain from yesterday).
As creatures hibernate or hungry, search for food,
the children's pets will frolic, happy as the kids.
The foragers and playful children can be viewed
from cars that cannot move or only manage skids!
The elderly afraid to leave their comfy homes
-a slip or fall is something to be greatly feared -
will feed the garden birds and reminisce of roams
on snowy hillsides, drives and paths that they once cleared.
And homeless shiver praying that the snow won't last,
their thoughts are far from happy times when snow brought joys,
and pulling blankets up against the icy blast,
their slitted eyes view happy laughing girls and boys.
Excited children grin and cheer to see the snow,
as creatures hibernate or hungry, search for food,
the elderly afraid to leave their comfy homes,
and homeless shiver praying that the snow won't last.
written 7th December for Constance's Created Form contest
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