And so
I
Confined my
Life’s fire
To a minute radius
For fear
Of self immolation
Since
I believed
that to feel some warmth
was far better
Than destruction.
"But what of the darkness?
What of the winter?
How are you to survive
with such a derisory ember?”
To inquire
Into such fallacy
Eschews all tenets
Of primacy
Witness, as I
I have formed
The ultimate aegis and
have paid
In full
The requisite price
For how can the wintry colossus possibly
besiege a bastion of pure ice?