fall snow

FALL SNOW

Fall snow and cover all the hurt we’ve done
to one another. Overlay the ache
of lovelessness with your oblivion.

You kiss me with forgiveness, make loss one
dress of silence, flake by flake :
fall snow and cover all the hurt we’ve done

with soft reserve. There’s nothing that you shun
so kneel down from the night and cloak
our lovelessness with your oblivion.

We can’t relent. And soon we will be gone.
But soothe us snow, erase our harsh mistake :
fall snow and cover all the hurt we’ve done

and bless us despite ourselves. Though none
but we can make amends, your whisperings speak
all lovelessnes into oblivion.

Cover our traces as we stumble on :
fill up our tracks, keep tumbling full and thick –
fall snow and cover all the hurt we’ve done,
spread over lovelessness oblivion.

From Family Tree (2016)