The Great Snowman War

Built from hands that didn’t stay

Coal-set eyes that look away

Scarves pulled tight around the neck

Waiting on what comes next

Laugh it off, call it play

Winter listens anyway

Every shape you leave behind

Marks the passing of the time

Break us down

Leave us here

White on white

Disappear

We don’t fight

We don’t run

We hold fast

Till it’s done

We don’t ask to be spared

We don’t ask to be spared

Buttons pressed into the chest

Frozen still, we do the rest

Lights went out along the wire

No warmth left to borrow fire

Bells ring thin across the field

Nothing left that needs to heal

Call it mercy, call it fate

We were built to hold the gate

Break us down

Leave us here

White on white

Disappear

We don’t fight

We don’t run

We hold fast

Till it’s done

We don’t ask to be spared

We don’t ask to be spared

Sing your peace

We know the cost

Every calm

Is something lost

When the ground forgets our names

Winter keeps what won’t remain

Break us down

Leave us here

White on white

Disappear

We don’t fight

We don’t run

We hold fast

Till it’s done

We don’t ask to be spared

Morning comes

Nothing said

Only marks

Where we were set