Winter of Pain

This is a poem about how a snowy day can quickly become painful and dangerous if things don’t go as planned. Based on a true story.

The day began like any other day
And for the seven hours I was at school
The snow was constantly falling
But school carried on without a fuss.

As soon as the school was dismissed
The snow brought with it a sour twist:
I waited and waited for the bus
But no bus had departed since I came.

So I walked a mile to my home
While it was twenty degrees Fahrenheit.
It was not like a walk in the park
Unless said walk was also long and cold.

That day proved to be agonizing
But I have endured a Winter of pain.
Yet there is not a single Winter
That has been endured by everyone.¹

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1. The last two lines are also a subtle reference to the fact that, later that same day, I heard that my paternal grandfather had died. ↩