Ice crystal outlines

Every single shard of grass

And smashed puddle panes

My twisted words sting

Rubbing salt into the wound

Keep my big mouth shut

Wandering snow flakes

Gently rising and falling

I follow them home 

Inside optic fibre

Radio waves, copper wire

This is our home now

If I disappeared 

Who would be first to miss me?

And what would they do?

Under dark damp dirt

Moles burrow deeper downward

To escape this cold

I keep stumbling

From one mistake to the next

Devouring me 

The depths of winter

Frost creeps across the window

Is everything dead?

Winter storms raging 

Harsh rain lashes the windows

The fire, dry and warm

Rain falls in thick sheets

We are soaked through to the skin

Pearly whites chatter

A hard frost glistens

Melting in the morning sun

Like all my resolves

Water levels rise

My island growing smaller

I can’t stop these tears

What words can I say?

Every time I get it wrong

If you could read minds…

Cut loose and drifting

The tide keeps pulling us on

Inexorable

Still standing alone

Shadows in a crowded room

Full of empty eyes

If I, by mistake

Transformed into a robot

It would be my last

Into driving rain

Into a blacker darkness

Into the deep sea

To be a machine

And do just what I am told

A dream, a nightmare

And through all this change

Though things rot or fade away

Something will abide

I’m still holding on

Holding fast and holding strong

I can’t bear this weight

I have been looking

Underneath the sinking sea

Looking out for you

Everywhere I go

It all reminds me of you

Everything I do

Under winter stacks

Amid yellow bramble leaves

Building a new nest

The tree’s thin old limbs

Cold and bare of summer’s crown

Carry me away