ice

it's truly Magical 

when it cools

a raging fever

or keeps

our sustenance fresh

or creates

caverns of protection

but cruelly maniacal 

when it turns

safe passageways

into ferocious flumes

and chaps

not only lips

but hides

and cracks

wills and heads

and traps

innocent peoples

in dangerous dungeons

of gratuitous gloom

inducing Sanity

(and even Life)

to slip away

so for all

its brilliant Beauty

(amidst impenetrable acuity)

when it accumulates

over a sequence

of neverending days

of frustrating frigidity

that makes

our paths

seemingly impassible

and causes

our ways

to perpetuate

some sense

of Peace

to become

seemingly impossible

exacerbating our wailing

and flailing futility

after no relief

from our grief

feeling buried beneath

its harrowing gaze

may some Mystical

and Healing Haze

(emanating and reverberating

and radiating Warmth

from Humble Hearts)

break through

the solidity

of space

and the rigidity

of face

with the Infinity

of Grace

that thaws Us

and causes 

all that is 

frozen in fear

petrified in pain

within Us

to melt away

softening up

the fallow Soil

of our Selves

with hallowing rays

that mend

our tender wounds

and render anew

the vibrant Vitality

and delicate Divinity

of our Humanity...

Let It Be.

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('Melt My Frozen Heart' © Ivana Simulnovic)