winter – C & K

Lingering Sadness

The Winter dark train
Rain running down my worn view
The fur children wait
You are eating Japanese
I wait for home on the train

The trees whizz by us
as we travel along the
cold endless train tracks

We are passengers
on a journey within a
flying metal tin

The way we wonder
at the foreign scenery
yet, long to be home

A slumbering fade
lips become quiet, and there is no malice
falling away into a nap

Thoughts process the distant Winter scene.
penniless and alone
forgoing family and friends for my words

A lost tired human
walking along rows of Christmas cosiness
wishing for pennies

Dreaming of the life I would lead with you.
lost to the four winds
feeling the nap recede into the afternoon

Hoping for the rain
Saying goodbye to Winter
Sneezes replace speech

Forgotten in Fog
Feeling the weight of your world
Floating towards sky

NOTES

A pre-Friday workday, car-sitting, fog-enshrouded haiku.

Some days I sit in my car and wonder what the fuck I’m doing with my life, and then I realise I need to work.

The weight of it all lifts when I drown in the largest coffee I can find.

All is well until it is not. I keep placing one foot in front of the other.

Sunrise at seven
waking to a winter chill
feeling the cold sheets
a mellow morning coffee
Watching the colours lighten

the deep Winter day
hanging frost from the window
a single snowflake
falls where we never see snow
a picture of snow falling

whipping winter winds
watching the washing dancing
weary from working

Unconstrained freedom
The promise of my Springtime,
yet Winter lingers
The pen moves to my music
I hear the sea calling me

I longed for the frost
yet the warmth of Spring arrived
Letting go, shedding