Broken Snowman

You ever try to build a snowman with snow that doesn't want to stick? That's how I feel all the time. 

A snowman can only be built with wet, heavy snow. If you live in a part of the world where there isn't snow, there is a reason there are not new snowmen built all the time all winter long all over where there is snow. The weather conditions have to be correct. Most of the time, the snow isn't fit for building. It would be like making bricks with dry dirt as opposed to mud; it just falls appart. I am the snow that falls apart.

There is a child that doesn't know that a snowman can only be made in the right conditions and wants to build one when the snow comes down. The child bundles up, bounds outside and starts to play in the snow. The snow powders and puffs or crystalizes because it's already frozen. If it's powder, it balls a small amount; hardly enough to make a decent snowball. Even if it's thrown, it breaks apart in the air. So the child balls snow a bit and attempts to cobble a snowman a little at a time. I am a child that has to keep going.

There is ideal weather to build a snow man. The best weather to build a snowman is usually just around freezing. If it's a few degrees above freezing, hope for it to be a little overcast so it doesn't melt. If it's a few degrees below freezing, you want that sun so it doesn't freeze too quickly. I am unideal weather.

Even if everything goes right with a snowman in early winter to be built it will freeze in place before eventually fully melting in the spring. During that melt, it will get smaller, weaker, dirtier, fall apart, unrecognizable without the memory. I am the snowman.

I am a sysiphysian series of tasks that goes on and on and maybe, if all the conditions are right, you might get to see a cute snowman for a day. Most of the time, it doesn't happen. I am dry snow. I am a willful child. I am unideal weather. I am a mediocer snowman.