Winter Blues

 

The night falls in too long

The morning comes in too late

The winter arrives

Everything else is dead

Including my heart

If not also my hands

The wind passes me with such a freeze

That even sun feels cold

And rain isn’t water but ice

And if you’re lucky, not ice but snow

Beautiful on top of everything for a time

Until it’s there too long and you condemn it

But at least the world is pretty, if not my heart

You never know how the whiteness of the snow

Can bring such an evil call to it

Such a violent thought of the blue

The cold that stitches you inside and out

You wanna fight it, you wanna run

But it follows, at least for three months

And if you made it without falling, you’re strong

And if you did fall and get wounded up

You’re still strong too

At least you get back up and conquer yourself

You still try to get up every cold morning

You still move your legs to class or to work

Even though your bed is warm and comfortable 

You still made it through the short days

You still made it through the long nights

You’re still cold and stiff and blue

But this winter will not crush you

And as much as you want to curse the season

There will still always be a reason

To live

To carry on

To smile again

It’s hard and it’s tiring

But it’s worthwhile and rewarding

Before you know it

The sun will come back up again

And the snow will melt

And seasons will change again

But until then,

Don’t let the blue dim your red

Burn harder instead