Despairbound

Winter waits within

The stirring skies

In clouds that watch the weak and sick below

Flake by flake, the cold is their demise

Encased in ice

Six feet beneath the snow

The breeze becomes a dagger to the skin

As every gust berefts the bones of hope

The killing walls of Judgment Day close in

As whistling winds become the hangman and the rope

The frantic people dress in wools and furs

And beg to live to see the blizzard pass

Both sheep and wolf despair as winter whirs

And turns, their eyes to hollow orbs of glass

Growing sleet entombs both leaf and limb

Winter takes the young ones for its own

A child sees his fingers break from him

And cries before his shattered corpse alone

Despairbound

D​esperate to survive the storm

S​till, they die among the other prey

P​reserved as relics made of frozen flesh

A​ heart will beat itself to death before

I​t feels the melting drops of winter's frost

R​elease the skin, it's bite and kiss both tore

B​ut still the soul decays where

Blood was lost