Roman numerals that depict my inner sanity.

X.

Your deceit is ice

and it freezes my body to the core.

My fingers and hands become numb 

and immobile;

I'm no longer able to reach out to

you.

My heart's temperature plummets

and sharp pieces of ice begin to 

protrude.

Breaking off into my blood they

become icebergs

that coagulate and block my veins 

and arteries.

They slowly kill me from within.