Frostbite
I thought of snow drifting for hours
The cold air leaking through the windows
And how gracefully each flake fell
With its sisters and brothers around
How such lightness adds to such weight quickly
How the cold wind bared to the bone
And I found myself thinking this way
As I turned and looked at you
Anyone else would say you're sunshine
A joking smile, eyes in thoughtful reverie
Always a burning comment mocking the wise
Always a warming hand if need be
But I know your seasons in other ways
Since I embrace truth to cut me quick
And shivers cannot begin to describe
The blizzard clouds in your hazy soul
I know the world as cold and barren,
I see others as dark and unforgiving
And often I feel lost in a leafless forest
Snow falling to fast to recover my tracks
And in the middle of my frozen fantasies
I see you standing strong and sure
The snow may gather and the wind may blow
But your being and presence ever remains
I struggle in the deep drifts and fall,
Snow clinging to my clothes and stinging my skin
In front of you I kneel and reach up a single hand
This world is yours created and animated
And I as Life am fragile, and at your tender mercy
And yet this shivering is from both cold and pleasure
I know in the winter season ruthlessness is strength unparalleled
And as such it triggers my desire to be lost in you
You step into my hand and a million suns unbound
Heat from the love of my touch on yours
Just a single humble finger touching another caring one
And you could look like anyone and I would know you still
Because only a still painless death would there be without you
And with you, a private paradise of thoughts and dreams
But that look, that single piercing glance at me
And I could be chained and naked and gagged
It's not the violence, but the method;
Not the undoing, but the creating
And I would give myself to any biting pain
Knowing that your desire strained your body as much
For no one else would I give all of myself,
For no one else would I let my vulnerabilities show
But for those that need mercy, let them have it
I throw it out to them into the wind and beg you for more frostbite.
The cold air leaking through the windows
And how gracefully each flake fell
With its sisters and brothers around
How such lightness adds to such weight quickly
How the cold wind bared to the bone
And I found myself thinking this way
As I turned and looked at you
Anyone else would say you're sunshine
A joking smile, eyes in thoughtful reverie
Always a burning comment mocking the wise
Always a warming hand if need be
But I know your seasons in other ways
Since I embrace truth to cut me quick
And shivers cannot begin to describe
The blizzard clouds in your hazy soul
I know the world as cold and barren,
I see others as dark and unforgiving
And often I feel lost in a leafless forest
Snow falling to fast to recover my tracks
And in the middle of my frozen fantasies
I see you standing strong and sure
The snow may gather and the wind may blow
But your being and presence ever remains
I struggle in the deep drifts and fall,
Snow clinging to my clothes and stinging my skin
In front of you I kneel and reach up a single hand
This world is yours created and animated
And I as Life am fragile, and at your tender mercy
And yet this shivering is from both cold and pleasure
I know in the winter season ruthlessness is strength unparalleled
And as such it triggers my desire to be lost in you
You step into my hand and a million suns unbound
Heat from the love of my touch on yours
Just a single humble finger touching another caring one
And you could look like anyone and I would know you still
Because only a still painless death would there be without you
And with you, a private paradise of thoughts and dreams
But that look, that single piercing glance at me
And I could be chained and naked and gagged
It's not the violence, but the method;
Not the undoing, but the creating
And I would give myself to any biting pain
Knowing that your desire strained your body as much
For no one else would I give all of myself,
For no one else would I let my vulnerabilities show
But for those that need mercy, let them have it
I throw it out to them into the wind and beg you for more frostbite.