Winter

I hear it breathing with the wind

letting its icy chill slice through my soul.

I see the trees letting go of the beauty they once held

and the leaves that lay left behind on the ground

growing hard from the ice that coats the land.

I taste winter's iron air

and smell the earthy fragrance of the dead plants

and the vibrant smell of pine.

smoke whispers from my mouth

as I exhale the cold,

like a dragon I breathe.

I run through the forest washed white
and watch the snow dance with the wind
as the faded sun shines through the heavy branches.

Winter shows the dark side of nature

a season of vulnerability

it is stripped from all the beauty it once held

 and left to make sense of the cruel, the cold, the ugly, the broken,

and find beauty in it all.


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We stayed in a cabin a month ago when we had our first big snow of the winter. It was sooo beautiful there. <3