What Falls First Poem by Susan Lacovara

You fell into my tiny universe
My water globe of wishfulness
Much the way snow cascades
From the winter sky
Hardly noticeable
At first
Swirling like a song
Somewhere in the distance
Stalled
As if methodically searching
For a pleasant place to land
A flurry foregoing guidance
Floating
In delicate downfall
Simple soft and serene
Untouched and untangled
In the divine darkness of
Do Not Disturb
Do As You Please
Coating my landscape
In brilliant breathtaking beauty
A pristine path where no footsteps
Had yet broken or breached the stillness

But as always the seasons shift
The white moundings muddy
The ground swallows that which melts
Before our very eyes