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❝ Almost like my poems,

you are such a commotion.

Almost like your touch,

the ice didn't do me right. ❞

Fingertips, covered with the

numbness of ice clamped in her hand;

She watched the words on

her ceiling, letting go of breathes full

of longing.

The words, dripped down on

her face like ice melting,

as her hands floated on the water.

She felt him, running his hands

on her back, warning to break it.

❝ If I burn, you'll be the one to run the ice on me. ❞

Everytime, she felt him wrap his

hands around her legs

and pull her down.

She would walk on, clamping

on the ice tighter;

almost waiting for the sign

to burn -

to drape his ashes around her ice.

Her bookshelf would crack

a little more, with the cool,

almost tearing her down.

This is how she was taught,

to live -

to drown and still live.

❝ Hey, Artemisia?

Sing me that song.

Stitch me.

Bury me.

Melt this ice of mine. ❞

Almost like an instinct,

she painted her ceiling with

a transparent colour of betrayal

and warm tears.

Corroding the string of fire,

the ice whispered words of isolation.

She watched everything burn,

surrounding the reincarnated water.

Maybe this was the lesson.

❝ Let the ice run wild. ❞

She laughed.

❝ Please. ❞

She painted more.

❝ Please, save me. ❞

❛ Did you save me? ❜

                                          ~Sampurna


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