White

Left then right.
A flake of white.

Left then up 1000 feet.
Down in swirls of wind.
Relinquished all control.

Right then left
and down to death,
a particle of whole.

Unique as me,
a bite of cloud.
Buffeted, built, as wind allowed.
Up and left and down below
A child of ice.
A tear of snow.

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