WINTER WINDS

Where do the winter winds go

I want to follow you there

You thought that you could hide

On the snowflakes in the air

You thought that you could run away

And dance among the light

Sketched up in shades of white

A place where all is fair

A place where all is right.

You thought you could take to the wind

And leave a surgeon's scar

This delusion I must rescind

I tell you it is far

Far from the clean break you thought it would be

It's a mistake

That you’ve left me

Because you are distant

And now you are free

As I am with tears in my eyes

And a body in the ground.

Left wondering why

You make not a sound

I'd take me to the winter wind to be a sprite like you

Live as we wanted to

Free and fresh and new

To see the world renew

With our passing every year

Until the end of all

To sleep sleep without fear

Living on the winter's call

To have you ever near.

So tell me where the winter winds go

I’d like to see you there

Among the clouds the light the snow

The bite upon the air.

Is it a place that will welcome me

I’d like to see it--where

You are.

Don’t say that it’s six feet beneath my own.