OF ALLEGORICAL FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW

 

 

Preceded by pandemic discontent,

this winter’s snow, in coal-like times

 gave opportunity for chilling allegorical

focus on messages that the season brings:-

 

As the wintering of time wanes,

it becomes evident that left footprints

in a snowbound world are useless.

As snow melts, so do the footprints

made in its chilling groundings.

 

Melted footprints are forever lost

and so are their wet memories.

In a snowbound world, you cannot

leave footprints of guidance; for coal-

like sunshine in such a world will prevent

 the keloiding of vapourous memories.

 

Indeed, warmth from the burning

of coal—in winter’s cold—spirals like

smoke as coal slowly transition into

useless ashes which can’t be transformed

back into the fire-fueling coal of soft warmth:-

 

Thus, as I likewise transition in the roaring sea

of life’s waters, may my spring waves left to froth

upon the shores with the winds, collectively release

clanging echoes from the conch shell of my life.

 

And on the sheeted sands of time, may my indelible

words be as squawking soaring seagulls—in ocean air—

rhythmically echoing God’s divine wisdom and guidance

that was given and shared from the warm cistern of his love.