winter arrives
and with it goes life
the urgency to rise
fades into a lazy death
as the desire to simply

be

wanders off alone
leaving us in this gray
this un-leafed despair
as a stark reminder
that this will be the end
one day
when spring remains
asleep forever

but until such time
we reach out and grasp
whatever light falls
happenstance upon our faces
that we might live
a little longer