HOME | DD
BLACKSTONExX — too late for an ice poem.
Published: 2009-04-04 04:23:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 72; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 3
Redirect to original
Description
"Would I freeze if I were to touch you?"You asked me this one day.
"You seem so cold."
We were eleven, holding hands like one of us would slip away if we ever let go.
I ignored the fact that you were already touching me, and smiled gently at you.
"No."
Then you fell away like ice flakes, and I knew it was my fault.
My heart shattered like thin ice, and I cried.
They felt like snowflakes.
---
Last winter I got my first kiss, and I wanted so badly to tell you
that she didn't freeze, either.
But she did let go of my hand, which was something you never would do.
---
You left me staring at the ground.
I decided then that the shimmer in the snow was a little bit of you saying hello from the sky.
Was it cold up there, too?
---
I try, even now, to keep the memories of you closed in a white box in my heart.
But all it does is keep them frozen.
---
I think you were right about me being cold.
But it was even colder of you to leave me with nothing
but melted ice,
and paper snowflakes.
