What Am I You Must Think

I creep in through the darkness And you can feel I’m there You may be threatened by my starkness Though I never meant to scare You can’t see me in the daylight But you will see what I have done And you can seal yourself in airtight Or maybe even run You really have to take me For who I really am I really have to stay free And uncatchable yes I am Most of you have seen The things that I can do Things are not so green When I make you feel so blue I just may have you thinking That I am some kind of crook If you’ll stop your eyes from blinking You can read me like a book You can feel me every winter What am I you must think No I’m not a splinter Have I got you on the brink I only have one name And I think that you all know If it’s all the same It’s time for me to show I make water into ice Even stop a rivers flow Sometimes I am not nice I am the COLD and now you know