remember when I told you
burning ice, frozen fire
remember when I used those words to describe you?
Well it's true, that's how far back I knew
I honestly thought you'd have a clue
that the ice is you
you are cold
I say again, you are cold
i'm not even going to withhold
a third time; you are cold
but the kind of cold I look for
after spending a couple of hours
walking around in the midday heat
looking for that one place that has good air conditioning
you are cold
the kind of cold I try to look for
when it's two past boiling outside
and the air feels like two inches from a car exhaust
you are cold, and I kind of like that
then again, you are fire
you are warm
like a candle flame you flicker
causing odd shadows to be cast
and causing odd shadows to disappear
and hell yes you're a horrible person
really really horrible at seeing you from my point of view
because then you'd understand the answer to your question
you won't even know, because I don't either
but you'd understand
that you're asking me why blue is blue
and why one isn't two
the answer can be stated simply as
“that's just how it is”
and it'll take more than a few headaches to properly explain
the science behind the color spectrum
and the mathematics behind the identity of numbers
and even those combined
can't hope to come close to answering your question
because no amount of science and no amount of math can explain
why you are such a wonderful person
because you are
that's just how you are
you are like that silence between an inhale and an exhale
a breath but the absence of
that bit of a straight line in a circle
a snowman built on the equator
a contradiction beyond recognition
and the only thing I see in this simulation
is that no matter what avatar you use
no matter what ruse
you are a wonderful person
you are wonderfully complex
and if I try hard enough
the complexity can become a singularity
running on transitivity like a machine
a machine that creates nothing but contradiction
like the contradiction of ice that is burning
and of fire that is freezing
and that's you
this is a short poem, but if I try and use all the words
to try and tell you why I trust you
alien civilizations would rise and fall
and their languages combined in a summation
would not even cover one half of why I put my trust in you
I just do