The Snow

A cold broken blanket drifts down from the sky, on a still growing night in the mountains up high. As it settles on into the ground found below, It assembles itself as a broad quilt that glows. An owl echoes "who" through the valley just west, As the deer take to shelter much alike do the rest. Warm in the cabin I gaze out the window, And I watch all the critters running through going home. As the fire at my feet slow but surely grows dim, My mind drifts away flowing free as the wind. I close my eyes gently surely I know, That the world will sleep cozy under thick layered snow.