If only

If Only

If only the snow
never melted away
and love was never lost
fading

leaving vague memories
that will never suffice,
giving no justice to
something that once was
and still is, but cannot be.

The snow too melts away,
lost to the dawning of a
new season, a start,
a new beginning

The white blanket
that covers the dirt,
the reality of the
Earth’s scars vanishes
exposing the harshness
of the landscape

And I think,
If only the snow
never melted away.