one wonders
what brought them out of comfort into cold
bad habit or beckoning hope
did they share
a light, a laughter or lingering kiss mingled with frosty exhales
man dies after center city fire escape collapse
one wonders if future city snowfalls
will whisper this urban tale
© michele mitchell, 2014
Prompt: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/daily-prompt-current-event/
Photo Credit: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/gallery?section=news/local&id=9390465&photo=8
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