pasture

Hannah Doherty

 

Sparkles from the sky 

Softly break 

Under your weight 

 

The dark wet wild world

Welcomes you 

Weeping

Water that soon turns to ice 

Like the sparkles from the sky

 

Coating the world in white

Your breath steams

The same breath

That kills 

That stings 

Creeping out from the edges 

Escaping into the world

Despite your efforts to block it

 

Like yourself 

Crunching and crashing 

Grass and pavement 

Wandering 

Wavering 

 

A constant thump beneath you

The only constant in your life 

Another day colder than the last

But hotter 

Always hotter 

Spinning faster 

 

Walk your pasture