Your Footprints on Snow
Since you left,
sorrow dances on the white streets,
Love is a drum,
beating with sad hands,
The drum cries like a lost child
birds forget their songs,
people, like dogs, cower.
You draped old dreams
on naked trees.
Nightingales devoured those dreams
and became ghosts,
on white mountains.
You walked on snow,
long strides, head held high, away from me.
trailing footprints that tell the story,
you wrote while pausing to push
your knife in my heart.
Perhaps to hear the cries of my soul.
I hurried to get closer to you,
Only your footprints on the snow,
I chased until,
They grew wings and left.
I couldn’t fly like you,
You took my wings,
my sighs linger in sad air.
I thought I saw hope in the space between your footprints
I wish you would come back.
Every year snow falls,
burying your footprints,
in a deeper graveyard
of my heart, unseen by the world.
About this poem
About the loss of love
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Written on January 01, 2022
Submitted by nasar_peace on February 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Words | 184 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 6, 7, 6 |
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