Embrace: A Poem

"Winter's kiss embraces me, Autumn leaves fade
like shooting stars racing across the night sky.

The warmth of season's spent, the fingers grow
longer, talons of frost dance across the earthen
mounds, ecstasy rising like smoke.

Faerie bells silent, the river's laughter frozen,
motionless--like a bridge spanning the chasm,
the travelers cross, a small noise, a thunderous
echo resounds.

Life is swollen, an apple in a still-life painting--
ripe and sweet, yet as distant as a rainbow's end.

Hearts sinking below the fog, the port--distant--
fails to greet the vessel adrift.

The rocks hunger for the embrace, ripping into
the lost--the drifter--as it wanders unaware,
closing in on a dangerous smile.

Like a magnet, the pull comes, like a blindman
crawling to find his way, the heart reaches out
for a gentle touch.

It was over before it even began, the horrid
shrieking, the cries of pain--frozen forever--
the gnashing and biting, the froth of red bubbles,
like a blanket of poppies."