There’s a little girl with a superman cape that needs me
Her chocolate eyes melt into tears of disappointment
As I turn my back and open the door.
Her cries echo in my footsteps
In the creases of snow
and I hear her in the jingle of car keys
the creak of the door
and the hum of the engine
I see her eyes in the headlights
as I wind through banks mislaid automobiles and crippled
intersections
I feel her lips tremble as my hands shiver off the cold
And I kiss her goodnight from miles away
With a dragon’s breath
Warming the world with my life
Pushing the winter back
Before sucking it in again.
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