I was bored or something one day. I guess it must’ve been a month or so ago. So I wrote this. Well, in my head, on my way to/from school. Worte it down… I didn’t quite want to end it where it ends, but I couldn’t think of properly phrasing what I wanted to convey and left it.

Looking back at it now, it seems just fine as it is, so here I post it… :)

Ah! ‘Tis a shame,
That sunny winter days,
Are amongst the most deceitful!
Conjured dreams of warmth and comfort,
Of life renewed,
Spring from the rosy glow that slips past
the lidded vaults which guard one’s slumber,
to shine upon a nearly-roused awareness.

Thus baptized into a new day,
One might leap from peaceful rest
With more than the hint of a smile;
A carefree bounce
creeping into the character
of an erstwhile hurried gait.

Approaching the issue of one’s home,
Bright rays of sunshine careen
From the white shroud on the world outside
To scintillate among motes of dust
Dancing near the window pane

Oh such a sight is heady wine,
For a mind long overshadowed
By the slate-grey beard of winter.
Intoxicated, one throws open the portal,
And steps forth, head uplifted,
Arms thrown wide,
The soul eager to breathe in a sunbeam,
And slide down its photon trail
Spinning towards the limitless heavens.

With such speed that not even surprise
may alight upon such a poor, deceived soul,
one is trapped…
For it is not the coy, graceful spring that awaits, with a wink,
But her darker twin – no less beautiful -
yet married to winter, driven by a cold, cold, heart.

Pouncing like a succubus,
Ever so swift,
Her frozen flesh wraps about one’s torso,
Chilling the loins, her glacial cloak whipping against the legs.
And yet… her fingers alight upon the neck,
gently, a familiar lover’s caress.
Her icy breath upon the cheek,
A deep, profound embrace.

Somewhere between the mind’s shattered dream of sunlit calm
And the body’s belated shivers of outrage,
Her hunger stabs sharp icicle spears into the soul
To sublime without tears or blood
Nevertheless, forever etching there the mark,
Of her primal need,
Her ruthless quest for warmth
To thaw her unbeating heart.