i’ve been winter for so long now, freezing with my lack of emotion

i’ve forgotten the kiss of summer

began to dread the healing of spring, resenting the sprouting blossoms of green

greedy to keep all around me coated with ice

reminiscing of autumnal decay

no way to live in stasis, in perpetual mourning, fearing the morning, moaning and groaning at any shift in temperature, temperance lost in a need to stay the same

but the sun shines down upon the tundra of my heart, forcing heat into vascular permafrost, releasing the spores long sleeping

i’ve been winter so long that this thaw is foreign and confounding to my icy mindset

bring me into your bosom darling, restore the blood flow ling since staunched by indecisive regret

tis time to be reborn in your healing touch, to allow the light to perforate the scar tissue around my soul

i am winter, but i am slowly seeing spring in your eyes