ode to!!!!!

you came with silent footfalls.

i was afraid that you wouldn’t make it this year.

how foolish of me like as always. in the last week of november, temperatures fell abruptly, the air acquired an edge to it and there you were, winter.

i’ve missed you. since we last parted a particularly cruel summer has broken much of my spirit.

the rains did nurture me for a while but i was staring out of my windows waiting for you, frost queen, my best friend. now that you’re going to be here, things will be ok again.

i can smile to myself when you run your icy fingers through my hair. i will laugh when you make me shudder as you lay an unexpected hand over the back of my neck.

you will bring that air of expectancy with you, as always. i have no words to describe that almost supernatural awe you fill me with.

the two of us will lie with bated breath, not moving, just thinking. how lovely, those frigid hours spent brooding. how sweet the silence as we contemplate each other.

must you go as quickly as you came?

summer is a bitch. even as would rejoice in each other’s company, she would lie over southern skies, sharpening her claws, preparing for her reign of terror in the coming months.

and reign she will, without mercy or compassion, slowly draining me. my mind will be addled in the heat, my body damp with slimy sweat. there will be no respite. through the dog day afternoons of march to may, i must meet her unblinking gaze and suffocate in her crushing embrace.

but she is not yet here so let’s make the best of things. the nights are still long and cold, the mornings bleak. your friends, leaden sky and chill wind, would be with us.

my mind has never felt clearer, my senses never heightened thus. there is still that bite in the air that will lengthen my stride and hasten my walk.

this is the season of thought, of actions, of repercussions and best of all, of solitude.
the time to reflect and take stock is upon us.

raise the drawbridge, fill up the moat.
from hereon in, it’s just you and me, babe.
how ‘bout it?