Snow settled onto the walkways

Piling on rooftops

Fluttering down onto frosted garden beds

The air so cold

Breaths caught in its icy molasses

Slogging footsteps

Sluggish moves

Frozen fingers weary in movement

Barely keeping grip on the blanket that warmed them

Eyes barely open against the flaming warmth

The air inside was thick with quiet and heat

Muffling the world

While the white outside coated the windows with silence

Warm hands pet freezing hair

Heated food meets frosty mouth

And in that weary, dreary moment

Time had never passed so slowly