IF NOT YOURSELF

First snowfall

of the winter 

                       now beginning,

snowdrops

                   falling through fog,

so bleak

one might 

                  have wandered

into a Gothic novel

where 

           a doppelgänger

will walk past

                        you

on the newly white roads.

giving

           one enigmatic glance

before disappearing

in the rising

                     dark.

Who else

would you

                   meet here,

anyway, 

              if not

                        yourself?

14.11.2025