Snowflake

Skeletal starving structure 

Glistening in the winter sun 

Short lived existence 

So sad in your beautiful persistence 

I watch you disappear 

No one will know you were ever here

You are but teardrops in my hand

You won’t stain

Just wash away

Hanging hidden chrysalis 

Mini fragments of stretched fingers 

Reaching the icy edges of creation 

Cracking as I gaze

Soon spring will erase