December Advent Challenges

Footprints In The Snow

I followed them.
The footprints he had made,
So absently.
Perfect indents
In the white crush.

Beneath the trees I
Padded through the snow,
As the morning sunlight
Glittered
Through the leaves,

Catching a glimpse
Of dappled skin
And bony limbs;

He was too fast for me

And as a cloud
Passed over head,
I watched him go.

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