This Winter’s Cold - A Poem By Rachana Grover
This Winter’s Cold - A Poem By Rachana Grover
Like every year, winter's cold whiplash
Is felt in every bone and sinew,
There's nothing special this winter
As icy cold winds hit the city anew
I watch the figures flashing on my screen
Huddled around a makeshift tent,
Shivering in the cold around a small fire
With meagre rations, but smiling content
No, there's nothing special about this winter
The plunging mercury and winter's cold,
The shivering spine and numbing fingers
May mean nothing years later when all is told
Yet, these people in the cold hold on and persevere
Like many others, they await their own dawn,
While some of them might in the cold fall away silently
Into the folds of the bitter cold, we mourn
Riveted by those images of bodies in the cold
Surfing through the channels we pause,
Then move on to better news and other events
Can we stop for the many that fight their cause?
The night falls and the temperatures alas quickly they dip
Another day of toil they may have in fields is lost,
They shiver in the empty streets waiting for hope
While others on the fringes only sit and count the cost
This is a special winter, a winter of hidden compassion
I never knew myself and now have found this feeling,
Of hope, of empathy, of caring for those I do not know,
But now understand under what forces they are reeling
In the depths of the night as they stand vigil over their cause
And beliefs, their desires, and their fight for freedom to toil,
I discovered in me a brotherhood and empathy for them
Unknown strangers with a justice plot men will foil
Like every year, winter's cold whiplash
Will be felt by everyone and me,
But this special year it has brought
Recognition of another's sorrow that I clearly see
Author's Note - If you liked this poem and wish to read my other poems, read my published Book - The Folks Who Hope (a collection of poems) that feature the Fortitude, Hopes and Dreams of the Common Man. Available on Amazon and Flipkart