Contain the new

Frosty sunshine

fills me up with

winter smiles

Too few for any decent body to withstand.

Crunch, crunch

go stomping feet

as laughter peals out

over white and blue you

Ice is everywhere

treetops, eavestroughs

dripping in my heart

Carefully melting in sun with wintery edges

Why heart o' heart
should you melt this way
is not your ice intact
for another day?

It holds me close
Secure in a vise
thoughts held at bay
shards broken and diced

What? broken
why diced?
Not today with play on the way,
.... but on horizons advice.

A new day
A new year
A new start
Let go the fear

So sunshine, o' my sunshine
make me happy
I pray of you
For all the days of yesterday
  cannot contain the new