Winter Crossing

Written somewhere between frozen landscapes, rocked to sleep by the rhythm of rails.

Tell me what you feel when clouds flow by, when sunlight fractures against endless ice, when snow falls through darkness, each flake a small lamp lighting the way forward. Let this rhythm rock you toward sleep, toward dawn breaking over frozen lakes.

Tell me who you meet when pretense falls away, when there’s nowhere to hide behind hurried lives only shared tables, shared silence, the slow unraveling of careful masks. Here, where time moves differently, strangers become storytellers, become friends.

As the spell nears its end, gather its magic -glows glimpsed through frost-etched glass, stars scattered over snowdrifts like promises, stories spilling from hearts held too long closed. Make memory of every fleeting moment, every face touched by this traveling light.

Then, as we say goodbye, as we arrive, to the platform where all journeys converge. All at the same time, as I will say inside, If we are only brushing lives together, let these brushstrokes remain forever painted bright across the canvas of all our separate, continuing stories.