Winters mind

As summer swells a fertile land

And cobalt skies, to image blind

An icy wasteland vow's command

The winters of my mind

Bitter breezes stay the bones

Anaesthetising heart

All reason melds to sentiment

As basis frays a part

Veracity is shrouded

Drowned, it taunts from iced veneer

Hushed is every living sound

This, barren time of year

Numbed this essence lingers

To be stirred by thaw of spring

Awaiting hopes advances

The chance anew will bring

External forces penetrate

Secreting-optimistic skin

Its surface oath, symbolic ploy

Fail to bridge the cavernous within

Ever wanton landscapes

Stretch to oceans set as stone

Brittle faith cascades to icy earth

No capacity to hone

The snow-capped summits beckon

As distant season's phantom sleeps

Lost to times, temperate illusion

Found, to winters bitter keeps

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