Plodding morning shadows
Blanket the cracks along the patio
Droplets fall into tiny pools
That brighten with the white light of renewal

As one memory eludes me
Another consumes me
A pane of glass fogged by nostrils
Keeping me at bay from a world less hostile

The world is so vain
And uncertain
A death in the family
And I'm in love again

New day
New day
New day
New day

Melting frost on the juniper
Greyness evolves into a spectrum of color