snowfall

i remember
how it sounded
crystaline and fragile
every
individual
flake
frozen flowers
touching
shifting
joining

solitude
silence
empty and full
fading in
to the numb
cold
and meditative
landscape

i am alone
emptying outward
as clear
unstained
as the snow around me
new
if i cry
tears will freeze
and instead
i focus
on the quiet

love is
all
around me
it's not
up
to me

love will find
me
steps leading in
to untouched
expanses

placid
stoic
lucid stasis
i will wait
awake