soul at rest
dormant needs
wistful
daring forward
shadowy reminder
retreat
buried hopes
kept safe but distant
subdued
fallow within
tilled by experience
abide
windswept moorings
memories left scattered
forgotten
existence sapped
remnants of identity
diverge
Winter’s vagaries
change one’s state –
not being
storms encircle
doubtbursts reign
endure
treading water
buoyancy wanes
resolute
saturated vistas
gathering fog
mired
insubstantial
obscured vision
lost
palpable darkness
hopes, fears; indistinguishable
circumspect
disintegration
the been-all and end-all
dispossessed
Winter’s victims
don’t choose to be affected –
only how
frozen in place
painfully suppressed
alone
seeking refuge
under the weather
persist
disrupted pathways
actualities in flux
undone
insufficiency strikes
thunder stolen
rethink
at a loss
functionality eroded
betrayed
damaged goods
battered by circumstance
survive
2009 
If we are to survive long enough to yet thrive, a passing state of being cannot become a statement of being. We must instead weather it, 😉 remembering there are mighty Springs below the harshest Winters.
