Those Cold Winter Nights

Gloomy days filled with grey skies

Turn into nights too cold for even the stars above,

The light they once offered

Now dead like the landscape they look down upon.

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Time ticks away in the silence of these cold winter nights

A promise of better days over the horizon,

But the horizon is too hard to see,

The world is dark and desolate.

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Eventually,

Darkness fades to light,

The world is born a new,

Black and navy shifting to the vibrant yellows, pinks, and oranges of the rising sun.

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The silence shifts and fades away,

Replaced by the melody of songbirds,

Their songs play on repeat in the crisp morning air.

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A ballad of spring,

A promise of warmer days

And more peaceful

Nights.