DEATH IN A SNOWFLAKE
Watch every fatal snowflake
drifting to the earth
showing no mercy
chilling, killing life.
Watch every fatal snowflake
drifting to the earth
down, down, down,
. . . Death in a snowflake.
An endless blur of white coldness,
ending life.
The fatal but beautiful flake,
drifting down with the others
to be one blanket of Death.
An endless blur of white coldness
ending, ending, ending life.
. . . Death in a snowflake.
Summer is a dream.
While the blizzard settles in - - death.
Showing no mercy
chilling, killing life.
While the blizzard settles in
death, death, death.
. . . Death in a snowflake.
Written 1976
Inspiration
I wrote this after reading Call of the Wild in elementary school, I was 11 at the time.