I've Known Winters

I've known winters
Fine and blue,
that melt the snow a cozy hue.

I've known winters
Bleak and long
grey tiredness grinding me
until despair is strong

The winters I've known--
always a death
stealing away the world i love
numbing its last breath

There is always a new beginning,
it always seems to come too late.
For me winter is an ugly passage
that delivers me to Spring's gate