Frozen Desires

A cemetery on a winter’s day

Chest deep snow covers
The graves of lovers;
An angel hovers,
Protectively.
Through uncounted years
Dead roses like tears
Echo silent fears
Effectively.

The wind howls through trees
To which cling brown leaves,
That break as they freeze
Crumbling to dust.
Unfulfilled desires
Chill Satan’s hot fires,
Transform love’s gold lyres
To envy’s lust.