Winter

i

She should be melting right now

Left only with armfuls of nothing

as the ice returns to liquid state

Twisted [sic] spelling; crumble, shatter

Frozen words; glistening

Never ignored

Too cold for the thaw

Frost still crisp and crackling

underfoot; under heart

Breathe; burned blue

Drifting, cover; vitreous vision still

Glacial movement; cold stasis

behind a favourite pair of shades

Exorcism of shivering, crystal excuses

and glacial lies; toothache

Make it quick

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of riddles

ii

A message

in glorious technicolour

She cried

didn't want it; go away

Don't look at me

Don't talk to me

Don't ask me

Don't love me

Stay the fuck away from me

The roller coaster looped

futility became normal

She's walking past the field

to a table she knows will hurt soon enough

a meeting; putting her hand on the hot stove again

except this one is cold

frozen enough to burn

the hot/cold pain is the same

Drunken misdeeds

Hedonistic lies

Trying to find a level that wasn't so high

or low

or cold

or hot

warm; slightly underneath the middle

She tried to love him

He didn't love himself

Failure

She throws it out

He slams the door

iii

She builds the wall again

with the love in her soul

If she didnt care

Would she cement the bricks 

so many times over?

She is desperate not to let anything through

ever; She cannot care again

Read: Lilith Panics

Read: Lilith is now an Island

DON'T read: "You and ya island need to float this way a bit"

The iceberg will melt and stop drifting

And warm sand will appear beneath her

punctuated with hard fossil and solid granite

that no one will ever penetrate again

iv

This is the last time she will cry; the last time she will think 

The last time that she will ever admire Winter's Frost in that way

She may embrace it again; but the tears are frozen forever

SRWB 2010