Reflection

A new winter breathes

the year's first frost

coloring the panes of glass

on wood-framed windows

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A familiar stillness

plays in the chill

resting with the ghosts

we trapped in these walls

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Light climbs

the morning sky

revealing the cold

left by the night

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We wished on stars

but life didn’t stop

hellos, goodbyes

changed like seasons

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Crystal patterns

spread snowflakes

over trapped green

camouflaging the world

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Foggy grey floats

in a hazy orange gleam

clouding my visions of

sunny days we spent

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Drops of frozen dew

cover a sleeping earth

with a blanket of

white powder

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Memories, maybe regrets

swirl with the way

we forgot to say

so many things

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Silence sits like

mourners of migrated

birds who took their

songs from leafless trees

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Truth was a gift

we didn't want

hope was a promise

broken by pieces

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Just like the first frost

believes it won't melt

love never thinks

it will disappear

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Neither did we