I sit watching and wondering, as I stare contently through my picture window.
The world appears to be a giant hidden sphere of white goddesses, scattered with various grey creatures protruding through the thick white carpet, now completely motionless on there journey towards the heavens.
Life is stagnant, the rivers ripples are gone, the playful squirrels are hidden, birds are not seen fluttering from one tree to the next, all of life seems dead, all but the steady and constant waves of society, as I feel the rumble of the passing train beyond.
Forty years later I’m now looking out the same picture window and now see a white carpet that appears like magic, made up out of a hundred trillion beautifully individual carved snow flakes and together make a bright, expansive and full white carpet. The trees above are leafless but are holding the truth and hope of everlasting spring and yes the birds are less and less active and so are the squirrels but not vacant just fluttering at a slower pace. All but the steady waves of society, as I hear the rumble of the passing train beyond.
The first two paragraphs of this poem I wrote as a freshman in college and on that particular day and that time in my life I viewed winter through that picture window as a lifeless time with very little beauty and yet the motions of life or the train continued. However forty some years later saw the beauty of the snow and had the patience to wait for birds and squirrels but still hear the trains. So the message is an old one how you see things in your youth can and often will change over time and its very important as an older person to tell the young folks you know that this is true, your views change over time and you can control whether for better or the worst.