The excitement's gone now I've grown old All I feel in my bones is the doggoned cold It use to be so really wonderful to know Tomorrow we might get a little bit of snow

Two flurries I would see drifting to the ground I'd look to heaven spinning round and round Sticking out my tongue to catch the very first Flakes of the season, it didn't quench the thirst

More flakes, send me more I'd cry out to the sky Sometimes I'd get a few then slump with a sigh For you see down here in the south where I live The sky holds back, there is usually none to give

But when nature did agree to give a few more She would give so generously amounts galore We could play in the snow to our hearts content With snowballs and racing down hills hell bent

The shouting, happy voices, laughter in the air There will never be anything ever to compare To being young again to just play in the snow Is just something I will never ever again know

I am older now and knees have been replaced Can't run away after I smacked him in the face With a great big snowball so solid and round Gosh it used to be a wonderful splat of a sound

Sitting near a fire barrel trying to keep warm Hands holding hot drinks never did no harm Feeling the heat trickling down to our tummies While outside we were wrapped like mummies

Laughing and singing old songs of long ago Trying to keep in time with stiff frozen toes The fun we had seems only a few days past But decades have flown since we did it last

Now all I do is watch, maybe try to find a glove When all I want is to play in something I love Seeing the kids, all ages, covered head to foot With stuff that could also be called a white soot

To feel the ice melt and get inside my clothes Start to make me shiver and get a runny nose Would be a heaven for me to feel once more As it stands I'm afraid to step outside my door

Today as I look out the window at the snow Bringing back many memories of so long ago I long with just a moment of nostalgic woe Please let me have just a little bit of snow

Belljoye January 4, 2002