Christmas Card Poem (2022)

Over the stillness
a silence greets our walk
alongside the snow
to your family,

the wind curiously absent
and no children
eager to build snowmen
or men walking their dogs,

a stillness greeting footsteps
that one sound
carrying us forward
binding us together in excitement,

that one continuous emotion
a love spreading us onward
across the snow
forwards never backwards

forwards never backwards.

(Photograph is from the Manchester Evening News)

(The audio version can be streamed / downloaded here (Pay what you want) - https://oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-2022-with-andy-n)