Personifications of Death and Life

Death: Snowman's Lament

As the days grow warmer
and the chill of winter goes.
I am no longer the charmer,
with a pipe and a button nose.
My body is melting
I'm turning to mush.
My cute smile and winter girth
Are now nothing but slush.
Can they remember the joy?
Or the laugher I gave?
To each girl and boy,
Of every possible age?
But I can feel myself slipping
With each passing day
The warm hand of death gripping
and melting me away.
The children have no more use,
for their creation and friend.
So tightens the noose,
as the season of giving ends.

Life: Oak's Rejoice

Do not doubt your worth,
for I am here because of you.
When you melted into the earth
I arose from the morning dew.
Your pain and sorrow transformed
into my silky hands and hair.
As what's left of your deformed
snowy-self melts in despair.
Grateful am I, who grows in the sun,
as your bane makes you small.
You don't know you have a son
Who is happy and growing tall.
My ode to you father who is no more
is my shade to all those in need
of rest and peace on the earth's floor.
It was you who watered my seed.
You'll live through me and my kin,
you are forgotten by no one.
As your spirit lifts without sin
To the kingdom in the sun.