Storm's End (Terzanelle)
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At end of darkness black as any night,
The dawning sun reveals the winter world,
Now covered by a blanket of soft white

In which the sleeping earth lies gently curled,
Exhausted from the raging storm it's seen.
The dawning sun reveals the winter world

Where silken snowflakes dance delightfully
Above the broken trees that bend their boughs,
Exhausted from the raging storm they've seen.

The tempest swiftly came and soon avowed
To rid the frozen ground of any sleigh.
Above the broken trees that bend their boughs,

In skies spruced up in weeds of darkened grey,
The clouds went swiftly any way they liked
To rid the frozen ground of any sleigh

With numbing crystals, sharpened, freezing spikes.
At end of darkness black as any night
The clouds go swiftly any way they like,
Now covered by a blanket of soft white.

Penned by my hand on the 16th of Mayan, in the year 452 AF.