Footprints In The Snow

footprints in the snow. tiny unnamed orphan lifetimes that melt without a sound and are lost forever. candlewax melted to the formless, mountains worn down over a millennia... the faces of wrinkled old men and newborn babies, one and the same. the fleeting dance of a butterfly, a river singing across centuries. 70 years,50 years,20 years, ... or maybe just tonite! coming back over and over again, or dissolving like ash into the wind. a dropp of rain, or the surge of an ocean, stone stacked upon stone, or thistle? footprints in the snow...