Author's Note: A snowstorm blew in a few days ago where I live... The first day of Spring was really dreary. The snowdrifts near my house are taller than me... I need to move.

This poem could take place either before the game - after Snow leaves to find Lightning - or after the game in a world like my story "moving on without you" where Serah doesn't die and Snow is nowhere to be found in 500AF.


[A Rain to Wash Away This Sorrow]

...

A surge of Spring-time optimism

Bright greens and pale yellows in her eyes

Everything was supposed to be warming up and thawing out

Her new life was about to begin

Ignoring the bleak forecast,

Dressing in light, flowy clothing

She set out into the world

But the wind bit her nose,

The ice under her feet made her sandals slip

And she fell into a soft pile of white flakes

Looking up, she cursed the sky:

Why snow?

It was supposed to be Spring!

But the storm blew in and froze her fresh start

It snowed,

And snowed

And she wondered why she thought she could escape him

When she lived in such a cold place

Though she wanted to move on,

Snow was all around her,

In everything she saw

It wasn't fair

Just this once

She had wanted it to rain