Flurries of dissimilar snowflakes drift off into the distance 

Silhouettes twirling onto land, each to their own 

Destination unknown

Keeping me contained inside its metal exterior,

glass is my barrier to the still openness outside 

A heated hum bellows beneath the seats

Disruptive engine rumbles, continuing to rip through 

the wind divides, takes a side as we pass by 

The booming sound system and boisterous singing 

An entourage to endless laughter 

Our echo, still entangled in trees

It plows the fields and pollinates bees 

Takes me to chocolate chip pancakes,

unwashed fingers in the mixing bowl,

Hunching over homework while

the room fills with rhythmic strumming of a guitar 

To go back 

Cliff dive into depths unknown

Suppress the freezing uncertainty from seeping through

To go back behind your protective glass 

But the water has turned to ice so that time is past.

Locking pinkies, we promised tomorrows

Swore and swore 

But now, 

Soft crunching trails behind me

dirtied sneakers crush the insignificant flakes of snow

Tamping into nothing 

the white sheet was due for a rude awakening

Flurries scream at me from the trees 

Beckoning me to go back 

Outside the protective glass barrier 

I pass through 

And let the wind carry me to uncertainty