Ice,
tears frozen in place,
melting along the edges of your eyes.
The heart of my desire embodied,
in your wilting form
and piteous cries.

Day after day, I stay in this place,
your chords wrapped around my throat
hold me here,
if I move, I die, if I stay, I die
waiting in silence for my world to implode
under a coat of golden falling leaves,

Under the fallen leaves I sleep
frozen for a thousand years.
the moon rises, the stars blaze coldly
miles upon millennia away
frozen as your tears,
still forging their path
down along your cheek.

Timeless and reverent, you stand alone still
always the one to be strong,
the pillar of a long lost dream,
to take upon your shoulders the grief of all.
crimson tears, one after another
disturb the dream pool,
a single shimmer,
a ripple plays upon its ebony waters
and fades away again.

But I’ve lost myself again, fading into the storm
an angel in ice, awaiting my summons
the trees are black and bare, the world sleeps
sleeps as I've slept for so long
'neath my blanket of ice.

Losing time, losing life as it slips by
when I look into your crystalline eyes,
oh, to save such a moment for eternity
oh, dare I? dare I look away from your light?
even for a second!
I would give my life for you...
I give my heart to you...

Oh bright one, even for one second
for one moment, one kiss
what I wouldn’t give.

Though you are but a dream,
a frail illusion, and I must wake now.
wake from this slumber, so deep
must leave you here to wait for me
I will keep your memory dear to me,
and we shall meet here again
we will meet again,
though a distance there is..

numbness consumes, I feel not the cold,
the emptiness of this separation,
all that is, all that will be
all that ever was, just fade into the stars

the blizzard gusts,
the snow piles upon itself agonizingly
and packs down, a mountain crushing me
but I wait, safe with this sphere,
of golden light and burning fiercely
within.

The ice melts so slowly
you fade so slowly, it breaks my heart
one silver breath
suspired in a hazy torrent
disturbs the quiescence.

the leaves are softly blowing away,
brown and rotting.
the azure, cloud-mottled sky
is my only witness, I know I am alone.
you are gone and I am empty
save for the dim remembrance of our love.

The spring rains come,
warmth that washes away the last of the ice
lightning tears the sky, but still I stay
thunder deafens me, yet steady I wait
I wait, defenseless, staring at the blackened sky
waiting for you, waiting to feel alive.

I lay among the wildflowers,
ancient, yet still unchanged, unmoving
the world does change, I am left behind
a remnant of a time long passed
a life long expired.

But here! as the golden sun sets wearily
I feel the promise, the need again, the awakening
I feel the chill in the late summer's breeze...
I hear you calling to me... still, you weep

Your eyes open so slowly
after having been shut so tight
only to stare sightlessly in my direction
blood tears again, just as I’d remembered
the leaves are gathering again, concealing my body
I close my eyes, I close them tight and stand
the golden leaves flutter about me
and fall to rest at my feet
as I embrace you for the first time
and perish in a blaze of ice and flame.