Fear screams

through a fragile mind

while those who pass

are deaf and blind

to the the world

beyond their focus.

 

Commuters hurry

and heels tap tap

as snows first flurry

covers the back

of the dooway's

destitute sleeper

 

The bottled spirit

held loose in the hand

that's too cold to respond

to the feeble command

of a wreck of a man

who cannot fall any deeper.

 

The heart that is chilled

is reluctluctant to beat

as it struggles on

but cannot compete

with the crippling wind  -

 

                                  -  that shrivels flesh from the bone.