Careful steps on ice

Deep breaths

In silence take it in

 

Here all alone

On the way home

As winter walks begin

 

Shadows loom about

There’s gloom

Yet something in the air

 

A peaceful still

Despite the chill

No other time compares

 

Silhouettes we are

And yet

We more than shadows be

 

Till winter’s end

Here with this friend…

The fallen snow and me