cold air is burning my face but the feeling is muffled, far away. i look at you, stoic menace. you are a block of ice and i am a flurry of snowflakes, raging, cold, soft. you ask me what the heart speaks. i do not know how to tell you what emotion is, just like i do not know how to explain to you what i am.
(things far too familiar are seldom easy to translate into a language someone might understand, a language that is not your own, a language you've forgotten the taste of)
mountains on my shoulders feel lighter than they should, and you take lightness to mean of less matter. perhaps you think these mountains have a hollow center, are made of feathers. you and i are two different forms of water. i have known ice, and you have known snow, years before today. i have known stagnance, you have known change, you took the word like an icicle to your chest, falling too far into your cave. pull me out, you say, and i am frost lining your windowsill. leave me be, you say, and you are a dull fog, whispering to glass. through the glass, we interact. you are trapped.
i want to see you cry for hours and never stop until you run out of what's made you so cold.