Something More Than Snow
By, Linda M. Crate
A little blue star greeted me long ago to guide me home, and gave me comfort; it must have been his brother that came to greet me this year because I saw another blue star whose kindness and mercy twinkled down from the sky on a frigid winter's night. He kept me company as I walked home without wavering. His blue light gave me hope because night isn't only a song of darkness, there is always the light of moon and stars, sometimes they are just hidden by clouds. Just as we are full of light that can shine through the darkness, we have to remember to let the clouds drift past and take the rain and snow as it comes. Our lives are not endless songs of bitterly frigid winter life—one day winter will give way as spring comes on pretty pastel heels, and each snowflake has a beauty of his or her own. And so, as endless as this season seems I can see there is a beauty and worth here just as there is to each human. No matter how cold and cruel they may seem there's something in them worth nurturing. Love can burn the coldest nights into something beautiful so perhaps if we open our hearts and our minds, winter can be something other than a season we loathe.
About Linda M. Crate
Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has five published chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon - January 2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016), My Wings Were Made to Fly (September 2017, Flutter Press), and Splintered With Terror (Scars Publications, January 2018).
