Arctic Blue

here within the icy crush of silence

pain lies frozen at the base of things

dreaming of the day it finds its way back

to lost passion

unthaw these frozen wings

that grew cold from long night flights

spanning glaciers of arctic blue

on the desperate search

for the one you thought you knew

would take the pain away

time revealed

there was no way back

to them again

the paths forward

all lay

covered in snow

this winter wonderland

is also a dream of loss

so familiar to you

is all you ever knew of life

for so very long

there is a waking finally

to the warmth of your room

where was it your soul travelled to

as it remembered the crush of ice?

there were many lies

you told yourself

but they never gave the healing relief

of waking at the end

of that frozen dream

you never felt yourself at home

here dreaming amidst the arctic blue

for deeper inside

you always sensed

your spirit was fashioned

not of ice

but of fire