Winter is Coming

from the valley to the mountains
from one coast to the next
from both poles, top to bottom
we hear
we absorb
but don't understand the news;
we see destruction
we see violence

we see death and dying
but do not realize that

winter is coming;
just around the corner,
it looms
like a stalker
hidden in the shadows,
an audience
at the theater that just
missed the punchline,
or an investor who trusts
the broker
more than the spouse that
he has followed so long...
winter is coming;
it is a slow movement of cold that
will sweep across the landc,
a slow gradual poison that
will remain
anonymous until the end,
and we,
 who think we see
will remain
unilaterally ignored as well;
those who write our history
and those
who spread the yarns of valor,
the likes of which
will never be seen again or again...
winter is coming
and we are unaware
and unprepared
and will be led like children
(as we are right now)
into years of despair
unable to recount it all
that got us there...   (or here)
but our legacy nonetheless
will be left forever
under the ice and snow of
the winter that is coming.

24Oct14