WEAKENING COLD

The cold has lost it's sting.
The memories haven't just yet.
And I am now afraid they'll carry on into the spring.
The smog regularly wanders
through our city
slowing gliding over the tops of busses and trains
and I am terrified that I will still have ghosts
sinking cold cruel fingers into my mind
when next come the rains.
Rarely do I write simplistic refrains
because no one (not even myself) wants to read what they've read or heard again and again
But sometimes it's the simple things which remain
when all else is gone.