12:01 am. The campus library.

Homework assignments long untouched.

Staring into a stranger‘s soul. Existential debates. Long awaited yet fleeting companionship.

How do I turn this stranger into a friend?

crackling snowfall

restless footfall

interlocking frostbite fingertips

radiator hum

icy heartbeat thrum

yearning receding repeating

Deep breath in

A dragon breath out

Hands freezing

Breath to keep the warm

Hot coco too hot

Panicked breathing

Opening presents

Gasp! What I wanted!

Hugs from family

Sigh

Old and cold and

The future untold.

MMXXI and final days:

I do not know why my spinal daze

Puts MMXXII on hold.

Dear Ember,

what happened here?

theres no warmth

in ashes left.

These fragments of fire &pillow talks.

Ones winter offered spring,

like she didn’t notice.

Each time she wilted away.

december starts

in melancholy

six-pointed story telling

loses interest

only to harden over

again like snow

Fractilized halt

Verdant lush rests

under snowy hush

Brilliant buds dormant

rainbow of frozen secrets

@coldfront