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The numbness I feel
Is my heart, icing over
After an avalanche
Froze my soul
Tiny snowflakes
Laying on my lungs
Until they collapsed
Under the weight
Of one thousand disappointments
Of heartache, worry, stress
Crushed under the voice
Of your fury
As uncontrolled as a falling glacier
Plummeting into the depths
Only to rise up again
After promises
Of change
Lies told
When you have no intention
Of plodding through
The snowfalls
Of your own heart
The drifts of your shattered soul
Mind
Body
And instead,
Choose to stay trapped
Under the icebergs
Of your own making
That will be
Your destruction
Instead of your revolution
The warmth
You could feel
From lighting the fire
To melt this frozen prison
Is
Perhaps
Too far away
For you to recognise
So, instead
You add more cold
To the frozen fragments
Of who you once were
Every apology
Every guilty feeling
Every bit of shame
Taking the temperature
Further down
Until your heart
Slowly stops beating
And you wonder
How it happened
So quickly
But we,
Left behind,
Know it began
With a single snowflake
You did not brush off
That grew
To freeze
Not only yours
But my heart, as well.
