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Cage of Ice
by: Eien Kiseki
I bury my face in my worn jacket
The fur tickling my frozen skin
I heave another painful breath as I wait
I wait for the end
The snow threatens to conceal me completely
Tiny snowflakes cut my face and arms
The wind slices through my bones with lighting speed
I am being torn apart
I feel naked in this barren landscape
A tiny stain on a white shirt
My clothes now are as white as the snow
They do nothing for me
I am frozen inside and out
My lips kissed blue by Jack Frost
My eyelashes are crystals of ice
My hair long since turned stone
I am a sculpture now
This forest is my garden
I can no longer move for fear of breaking
I am trapped
I close my eyes for the last time
And wait for the darkness to close in
My breathing has slowed
Leaving my body in a thin wisp of steam
I am falling now
Through an endless hole
An abyss of darkness
No up or down
My back arches
Twists with pain
Am I not dead?
Should I not be free of pain?
I writhe in the air
Bones popping and changing
I claw at my skin
Try to shed my body
The pain stops
The darkness lightens
And I am free
The chain that was my body cut
But I stop
I am not free
The darkness does not glow white
Red and orange and black
I look down and I see my body
Covered in the snow
Pure white and motionless
Innocent
I am not innocent
I never was
And the wings that grow from my back,
They are not white
Black and shiny
Thick and slimy like oil
They are jagged
Razors that cut my soul
I fall
These wings are not for flying
They are for dragging
They drag their victims down
And there is only pain
Pain and regret
Regret for what I have done
To become what I am
And there is fire
Fire that does not burn the body
But the soul as well
Engulfing every part of me
And I am gone
No memories are left
No one will remember me
Because I never was
Was anything more than hate
Hate, trapped in a body
Captured
Frozen in a cage of ice
- by Eien kiseki |
- Non Fiction
- | Submitted on 02/14/2013 |
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- Title: Cage of Ice
- Artist: Eien kiseki
- Description: A poem about something that was never really anything.
- Date: 02/14/2013
- Tags: cage
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