Bridges to Nowhere

tortured reasons have churned up decades of doubt winter arrived and struggled to remain, clinging to this very same hour mercury spills and rolls away silver it's cold here, out on this long slide stumbling downward under all these fears will we choose springtime again come next autumn can we bring ourselves to salvage this ice? heart treasures abandoned in favor of concrete this wall is too high to climb over and breathe, I watch now as they gather around you butterflies swagger and preen maybe there was more to us than we ever dared to admit guess we'll never know now, as you're no longer here and I'm still reaching stuck in these layers built over tears bridges to nowhere, and yet, I can't leave...