'Snow Baby'
The snow will be gone when you come baby
The ice will have melted away
A springtime bloom will be waiting for you as soon as you come out to play.
When you open your eyes there’ll be flowers
Branches bloomed into hues
The bees will be back, the petals attacked
and the honies will melt around you
The white will be split when you come baby
The colours splintered through rain
This blanket of snow with its one palette show
Will melt in a rainbow of paint
The cold will be gone when you come baby
Just a warm little cooling down breeze
The leaves on the trees will be minty and green
And the rivers run back into seas
The thaw will be here when you come baby
The animals peeping through dirt
Daffodils trumpeting gateways to parks
As you open your ears to the earth
The land will be soft when you sit baby
The grass grown through daisy chain seats
The sun will be bright, the heat will be light
As you lie in the shade of the trees
The snow will be gone when you come baby
Right now it’s a blanket of pearls
So just rest for a bit, put your feet up and sit
till the buds break the frost and unfurl.
The freeze will be gone when you come baby
The glittering frost-biting tracks
So grow strong with the spring so when snow starts to sing
You can run out and marvel at that.
Hollie McNish
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