“Snow Globe” by Michal Mitchell
There’s a space left on my window sill,
The dust and time are left too still,
And if I took my dreams, my thoughts,
And place them in that empty spot,
Would I shatter them to the ground?
Like snow globe chimes that no longer sound,
The dust will pile around the round
Spot where it once stood I found
That I could no longer,
I would not ponder,
Onto these thoughts that are purely sounder
In a moment of crisis, I do speak
To reflections of myself I do seek,
I look her in the eyes and say
“Take that globe and shake away”
That’s where you kept those sunken dreams,
You shake them now and then you’ll see
The snowflakes fly to paint a pretty picture,
The sound will sing a pretty whisper,
But then the snow will rest in place,
And those lovely voices are replaced
By words so frightening in your mind,
A better place and a better time
Is what you once and now only seek
How long has it been? A day, an hour, a single week?
No, it’s been years since you heard that ring,
Since those pretty voices, they did once sing,
But now you’re left with broken glass,
Wash your hands, and her you ask,
“Am I still who I want to be?”
Only when you break her free.
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