Winter Grief

revised poem

Photo: © David Whyte

WINTER GRIEF

When you find
yourself alone
in this winter's
narrow light,

when you want 
to come out
of the darkness
only to confirm
you can
return
there again.

When you see
by a single glance
through
the misted window
that the rain
has come to beat
on your
walls.

When you watch
yourself alone
and walking,
when you watch
yourself …