Winter's Tears
Winter's Tears
I cried tears,
Stalactite formed
On cheeks encrusted
With winter thought.
Sadness buried
In the first snows.
Drifting and lost,
A whiteout of memories.
And the tears
Ice carved to
A crystalline carapace.
Where all shine
Had dulled to blackness
And light erased.
The tears layered
Strata scored and
Hardened in the
Freezing rock-winds.
Biting and bitter.
Winter's tears left
A permanent scar.
No thaw in the daylight.
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