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Livia Apr 2015
Can’t feel my hands
Or feet
Or anything

I don’t know if I’m stepping or not
My skin is as white as the snow
My body is shaking unwillingly

The cold wore off long ago
Just to be replaced by numbness
I feel as if my heart is freezing

Can’t walk anymore
Falling to my knees (if they are even there)
And I start to freeze more

Suddenly, warmth came
I wasn’t trapped in a frozen cage
The cold got lost;

But I lost something more
Just another poem about the cold. What a happy start to spring!
Franc Jan 2015
my heart is cold. i met her in early august, where the sky was as blue as her nail polish. even at first glance i knew her heart was as cold as mine. i discovered, and realized years later that indeed hers was much colder, crueler, deceptive. the first time i had managed to get her in my bed i thought i was victorious, untouchable even. as we laid there in our entwined love making, i had convinced myself she was mine. i told myself she was like every other woman, i could come and go as i pleased, with no repercussions. and in this moment i had lost. i did not know it yet, but im positive she did. as i gazed into the abyss that were her eyes she knew....she always did...
    i dont know what about her made me keep coming back. maybe it was the scent of her skin. in my final moments i still dont know... this woman, that had captured my soul and kept it in her heart of ice. it wasnt lust anymore, my friend. we talked, under the stars, over a cup of coffee; we laughed over our favorite books and scoffed at society. danced to music that appealed to her and enthralled me. she stimulated my soul and unlocked the coldest, deepest parts of my heart.
i was in love with her. and had convinced myself she was in love with me. now, i knew how all the previous women i had manipulated had felt. she was gone before February. her soft touch, her smile, her scent, the underside of her *******, her intellect all haunted me... i searched for my ice queen for many years, alas i could never find her, i still often dream of the memories we once shared.





i could not warm her heart of ice. indeed, i hope someone out there could have saved her from the loneliness i could not save her from. i hope someone saved her the way she had saved me. but, i surely doubt it.
maybella snow Jul 2013
my heart it cold
my skin is frosted
my eyes are ice
my mind is frost burnt

your love is my fire
                   defrost me
                      warm me up
i'm too cold
i'll die soon
Alice May 2018
you can’t whisper favourite in my ear
and pretend you don’t love me
although i don’t think you are pretending
the truth in my mind is
scribbled and swallowed and affected
by the circumstances and horrors of
my jealousy
i can’t contain it
because you open me up
i want you to open me up
want you to love me more than her
is she gonna be with you forever?
if she is
then i won’t be
i am not even around now
barely in your mind
i’m like fine, red hot, wine
but she was the shot of apple sourz
and your mouth is coated in her
she is tacky why don’t you see that
she is tacky
i bet she smells of cigarettes and benefits
i smell of a levels and a hidden prestige
you like the smell of smoke
you started smoking
she could not spell bourgeoisie
let alone know what it means
i have all these theories in my head
about passiveness and television
and the marxist revolution
about how maths can’t be true
and about the truth and these concepts
and my mind always focuses on you
focusing on her whilst she probably
focuses on you
and i bet her dainty feminine thumbs
type and take pictures of her *******
and every time you open them
you send one back, *****
she is wet
and i am
crying
over another minor tragic flaw
in my personality
my downfall is my delusion
and my jealousy
to believe i am greater than i am
to think that you could love me
i mean
you said i was your favourite
and as you wrapped yourself around me
i thought
this is what it is like to feel warm
it was the late stages of hyperthermia
you put on a picture of you and her
you wouldn’t put one on with me
i don’t think you want to hurt me
but your words scrape along the rusted sides
of a personality i want to forget
but you are so enshrined in me
that your words sound heavenly
but if god existed he knew this
would not be fair
to fill my chest with a heart so big
but a mind full of jealousy and despair.
not my best but trying !
Kori Aug 2020
What happened?
Long after language has faded
And our customs are forgotten
and we just don’t do tradition anymore
Our existence seems so alien in our own nation of birth.
Is this ours?
What do we make of it?
We are here now.
Here.
Now.
Where is here? When is here?
I need you to answer me. A rough approximation will do.

Question. How did we get here?
I don’t remember.
When did we leave there?
I have a confession.
I’m not sure where there is or how to locate it on a map.
Tell me, when we were first there...who did we live amongst? And dine with? And laugh with?

I like to romanticise our last whereabouts.
I imagine we existed when/where black was beautiful
I think there and here, then and now, all merged into one and we somehow lost all concept of time and place.
As kings and queens, we had this luxury.

Follow up question: Why did we leave?
My memory often fails me.
My recollection of events is a little fuzzy.
Sometimes I have flashbacks.
Of brown and black bodies. Distorted. Damaged. Broken.
I also remember water. I remember drowning. Sometimes the hyperthermia set in before I could.
But this hurts, so I try to quiet these thoughts.


But now we’re here.
Or at least I’m here.
But I never really left there.
I’ve no return ticket.
And I’ve misplaced my itinerary.
So, I guess I'll be here awhile.

— The End —