Footprints In The Snow

As I look out of our bedroom window

At the world in white, stretched out below

Memories of our time together

Are Like footprints in the snow.

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Before we met I was Like a naked tree

Barren of joy, barely holding on

Like an expanse of unbroken snow

Cold and crisp and all alone.

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To the onlooker, perhaps beautiful to behold

To me frigid and difficult to bear

My daily existence I lived in a nightmare

For my existence, I didn’t care.

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And then one day, like a snowflake from heaven

Beautiful beyond compare

Individual, complex, and breathtaking

You added to my life a whole new layer.

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Joy and laughter were now in my palette

Green leaves of life rather than naked boughs

A new thirst for living and hope for our future

One smile my love and our exchange of vows.

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Now as I look out of our bedroom window

At the world of white stretched out below

My heart swells and love abounds

To see our children’s footprints in the snow.