Unknown Girl Poem by Byepolar Bayer

You never held your breath you said
but you never promised you would
I watched the big flakes through the glass
falling all over town, all over time
and took to studying history

And I remembered when we were white
and the trees were reaching upwards
I took my father’s axe to the woods
and left it where it was stolen
by a family of shadows

My ambitions were on the big side then
All of those trees were coming down
until they were saved by thieves
who never gave a toss for trees
or dreams of making good

Now all those trees are falling
and I’ve no nobler axe to grind
than building walls against the tide
with never a moment to spare
for spending the little left wisely

And the ploughs have broken through
to clear the streets of dreams
and from the other side of town
your breathing fogs the window
and fades, silent as snow on snow