Love Between Fire And Ice

I have another poem from that upcoming project that I’ve mentioned before in one of these blog posts for you today. It’s a rather long one, by my current standards for the poems I’ve been writing recently, but the concept intrigued me on a walk home recently and it’s been burning – unintentional pun – away in my head for a while, so here’s the poem.

Love Between Fire And Ice

Why won’t you fall in love
with the one you see in ice?
Kiss her with your lighter,
and see how the love of fire
will destroy the one you desire.

It’s a perfect disaster, mashed
into a masterpiece. Love her
while knowing that your love
can do nothing but destroy her;
the test, for you, is whether

you’ll allow her to return to
your lapping flame. She will,
but you, sweet mistress of heat,
must turn away the one of ice,
although it breaks your heart.

In truth, there are only two outcomes;
this world is not fair in that, for you
and her, even pursing equal goals
is not equal. Bring her closer, and
she will fade away before your eyes.

But if you cast her away, then you will
know the rejection of the self: denial.
Unselfish as it is, it will gnaw at your soul
until you know no other nightmare but
the dream life you could have never had.


Enjoyed the poem? Why not check out Our Paused World or Aleatory Poetry?

(They’re my poetry collections! Available on Amazon!)
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Published on January 19, 2022 11:55
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