Snowfall

The snow is no different from us

From cloudy wombs

Fresh snowflakes fall like dust

Shimmering, fragile, ivory shavings cry

Conceived in summer throes

Birthed by the time love grows cold

Burdened with a duty

To renew what is always dying

Faith in humanity and beauty

We blanket a wretched earth

Shivering from loneliness

Hardened by ice and pain

Quickly, before we melt

Hold hands with our newborn friends

For our predecessors, make amends

But our hope grows frail

Like green in brumal jail

Aging quickly

The souls with which we were born

Are the first to resign

Toppling their king

Because prayers are orphaned

When hell is the only divine

We are trampled by feet

Stampeded by hooves

Run over by tires

Polluted

Corrupted

Blackened

With spit and tar

Concussed

Addicted

Jarred

Fucking

Loveless

Lonely

Scarred

Charred by cigarette ash

Blighted by festering trash

Bloodied

Sullied

Fighting

Always fighting

And thrashed

Unrecognizable

Inconsolable

Tearless

Melted

And dry

Defiled

Sloshing

Sticky

And reviled

Like flushed semen

Dead before alive

We can never win

When the world doesn’t warm beneath us

When the world reminds us we are born cold

Frostbitten fire

Bludgeoning satire

A genocide of feeling

Our destines are foretold

As youth forgets the old

After it all

The snow is no different from us

From cloudy wombs

Fresh snowflakes fall like dust