Winter's End

I started off this winter with my love by my side.
I started off this winter with his hand in mine.
I started off this winter with someone to hold me tight.
I started off this winter with his light in my life.
I started off this winter with no sleep and  no rest.
I started off this winter with too much to detest.
I started off this winter, naive, starry eyed.
I started off this winter, hope fresh in my mind.
Now I end this winter, with my love gone and lost
Now I end this winter, paying the steep cost
For words as bitter as the wind
That brought the virgin snow
For assumptions that made the debts I pay
For pain I cannot know.
Now I end this winter with rest but rest I not,
For there are nights when life can't cease, and the storms cannot be stopped.
I started off this winter with mountains I could move
I started off this winter pushing them with you.
But with time that passed and aching hours I wish I could regret
With you I shoved and tried and failed but I cannot move as of yet.
I started off this winter with knowledge I loved you,
And I started off this winter knowing that you loved me too.
But the shivers and the flakes of white that plagued this winter cold
Froze our hands and froze our hearts with the ice that we foretold.
We knew the end was near and that the sun would shine again
And shine it did for one whole day but then we lost our friend.
I started off this winter with a heart so pure and true
With the runoff of now melting snow I relinquished it to you.
I started off this winter in a frigid fairy tale
I started off this winter but now all warmth has failed.
I have hope for the future, for the flowers in the spring
And hope that something good for you the melting ice might bring.
The grass and wonder and the fresh new world
Revealed soon by the rain,
I hope this warmth and water fall
Can wash this all away.

forever and always