Did you see the snow today?

Did you see the snow today?
A thousand flakes of snow,
carried along by the wind,
moving as one but never colliding,
as a school of fish or a stampede,
white against the gray of sky,
Kamikaze flakes,
rushing their way to the ground,
to a silent end.
What is a snowflake once it hits the ground?
Unique and individual,
Does it find itself during flight,
form its own dream,
a greater purpose than the whole,
until it slams into the crowd,
much too quickly its spirit extinguished,
lost in anonymity,
a silent follower to the end.