Winter Love Poem by Jahid Onik

At the northwest coast, nights are long in winter
How long?
Sailors can cross the Pacific over a night
A writer can complete his last unfinished novel
An eighteenth can discover herself falling in love for the third time.
The world can be changed over the night,
That big a winter night can be.

Go and find yourself at the middle of glaciers
Feel the beauty the Alaska,
A gentle breeze is blowing and you remember
You missed the last night dinner.
Perhaps the most pensive and lonely winter night
Ever you have passed, was the last cold night.

Freezing over the suspension bridge
Recall the man who loved you,
Remember the small river you crossed together by aquabus;
That was in last winter.
This is how a long winter night comes and freezes every second!
This is how love comes secretly in winter.