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Winter In Your Part Of Town
Winter In Your Part Of Town
What’s the weather like
In your part of town?
Has the winter left
Your heart frozen?
Like fossils stuck in ice.
My letters on your table
Are turning cold
And my hands are numb
From waiting.
How are the people
In your part of town?
Are you making
A snowman with neighbours
You wish you never had?
Who show up to clear
Your driveway.
When it gets snowed-under
From their expectations.
And your irreverence.
What books are you
Reading in your part of town?
Is fiction keeping you warm
On a chilly night, damp with
The morbid facts of your life?
Stories you hoped were yours,
Only they weren’t. Not even in
Your part of town.
What about winter in
My part of town?
You never asked.
If you had, you’d have known
That my Christmas tree
Has a star missing,
Like the twinkle in my eye.
That you took away with you
When you left to your part of town.
And winters since then
Have forgotten your warmth
Like ashes forget
They once glowed,
Or maybe it was
Just the heat of the moment
in my part of town.
