PREMONITION II

 I recognized you in the melting snow,

When the winds blow warm and mellow.

 The spring time nearing inebriates my soul,

 As I inhale the longing air ladden with sorrow.

Ladden with my reluctant tenderness, my eyes glanced back at the footprints you left behind,

 the footprints in the white snow that I will always recognize;

 And I knew that you would be dear to me, even though you walk away,

I knew that I will love you

All the way.

 I met you on a day that chimed and echoed with new beginnings.

 On a cool and tender drunken day,

You seemed familiar, before you began to recede,

 I recognized you on that elusive day.

 Tenderly I looked back at your footprints, a dark white trail you left behind 

 and I knew that you would be dear to me,

 And that I will love you until the end of time.

 I met you when the ice started to melt,

 The ice, shrouding my heart;

 when the day light changes to yellow, at times to blue, and at times to red,

 And I am all at once sad and full of light.

 I turned back to look at your footprints with an unexpected tenderness,

The trail in the white snow;

 and I knew that you would be dear to me and

 Loved more than I could ever know.

A.S.