The Four Platitudes

And when they found you on your back 
  All cradled in the snow 
  You looked as though 
  You could sleep forever 

  And when they found you on your back 
  All grinning in the cold 
  And skin so bright 
  Stained with blue and white 

  In the neighborhood where you were raised 
  And you wasted all those days 
  Body deep in snow banks 

  A Christmas night like any other night 
  Foggy eyes wide and alive 
  Watching snowflakes sheet the sky 

  And when they found you on your back 
  Lips cracking in sun 
  Marks of the night 
  That took your life 

  And when they found you on your back 
  Alone out in the cold 
  Limbs stretched to show 
  An angel formed below