Shhh……

 

The silence of the snow as it,

Carries the winter across the land,

It is unnerving,

Each flake, a spirit waiting to be reborn,

Its new, its concealing, its inviting,

A white mask descends onto the face of mother earth,

It covers her history of wrinkles,

Her centuries of faults and all her impurities,

She becomes new once again,

Clean…. Fresh…. Untouched,

Once again a virgin she awaits her lovers first kiss, and,

He surrenders to her innocence,

Her sinlessness, her emptiness,

He is beguiled,

He tempts her with his strength and power,

His breath seizes her, she freezes,

This moment is captured forever, if he chooses,

He envelopes her with his brightness, his fullness, his magnetism,

She is his once more,

Their passion awakens behind a blizzard of lust, hunger and want,

She trembles in the brightness of night, then,

Shhh……

Silence,

He releases her and she is alone again,

Solitude,

Warmth and fullness her only company,

Her river of tears strips away the beauty that captured him,

Her ages creep back,

Her foundations weaken,

Her oceans swell with heaviness,

The sunrise brings light again,

And she is ready,

It is time,

She gives birth to the new,

For this is the life bringer season

 

Tina Ford