Gradually, I descend the gradient
A glistening glissando, radiant
Into grander & deeper feelings
Sometimes I want to reach inside myself & pull out the glass embedded in my lungs, the poisonous piercing pieces causing me to feel like this
Other times, it feels like sliding into a pool of bliss
The falling hail is tapping against my window like a heartbeat next to mine
Thawing the ice, ironically, in my own chest
As though we've known each other forever, maybe longer, & we've finally found a place to rest
My heartbeat is, my feelings are, the swinging of a pendulum
I feel like a block of ice, & you are the hammer, sculpting, chipping, chipping away, so much that there's nothing left at all
