The Snowman

Encased in ice and frozen So the world could not break through, The beating of my bitter heart Soon faint and thoughtless grew, And from this frigid, frosty state A life of snow was born, So followed through my days was I By my defence's spawn, This snowman bore down on me, Soon becoming my excuse To withdraw from society, A self-confessed recluse, Every day I'd see him there and He would stand in front of me, A reminder of my shame and Self-inflicted misery, Nobody new could I let in When chances came about, For the snowman blocked their entrance And forever shut them out, So this fashion continued and The years passed in a haze, I was convinced this chill would stay To curse me for all my days. Then one day I saw the sunlight Through the bolted window pane; Suddenly I heard a cracking sound And I was once more sane. Gasping, I clasped my icy heart Which had begun to thaw And I collapsed, my mind starting to spin Before emotions rushed to outpour, Then the snowman's fury caught me But I had now begun to weep And the creature howled and fell, Keeled over into a heap, So hot tears came running forth As I let them fall, and knelt Over my silent snowman Who gradually began to melt. On and on I cried until at last I had no more tears, So I stood up and waded out of The pool of all my fears. As time went by the pool grew smaller Until the water cleared, Then my heart was warm as all The frozen fright had disappeared. Now my door is always open To the good times and the bad, And my heart holds no more frost or snow For a creature to be clad.