COME SNOW
The air is beginning to feel quite nippy at night
And there is a big halo around the moon so bright,
But as yet no snow has come to cover the ground
To protect from the ice cold that will soon abound.

The shrivelled plants need the protective warm shawl
To help save them from the coming icy winter squall,
If no snow comes how dry and sad the spring will be
For the cold will have killed everything we usually see.

Come lovely snowflakes fall upon this land of ours,
Carpet the earth to protect the lovely spring flowers,
Come down and fall deep so the spring water will flow
Free and the soil will be blessed as all things will grow.

We need your pure whiteness, we need that winter pall,
We need your softening touch, need your warming shawl,
So come and glitter as you gently fall upon this barren land,
Come and be as numerous as the sea shores warm sand.

M Ann Margetson November 22, 2001