Blue Winter Snow Poem by Mark Heathcote

Blue winter snow, I want to remember you that way
The way the river, winds, drifts silently away.
The way the Canadian geese V migrating home.
I wanted to remember you, crystalline, pristine.

I wanted to remember your haunting eyes, Anemone
How they looked at me longing, midstream
In a dream, we shared like nothing ever dreamed before
Blue, numb, bitten fingers cruelly unwarming like your body.

That never felt my loss when your inevitable melt came
Came all too well, dead, frozen deeply buried in melancholy
Blue winter snow, I wanted to remember you that way
The way the river, winds, drifts silently away.

The way the Canadian geese V migrating home
Oh, maybe we'll meet again someday soon.
Blue winter snow, I want to remember you that way
The way the river, winds, drifts silently away.

The way the Canadian geese V migrating home
I wanted to remember you crystalline, pristine.
I wanted to remember your haunting eyes, Anemone
How they looked at me longing, midstream
Oh, I swear it was all a dream taken away.