~CRK
Ice World
II
~ Ice World
This was my home
mountains like sentries
snowflakes pestering and persistent
haze the only clouds we saw
a chill that rang
down to my core
even as I am a universe apart
It hasn’t changed
all these years
I wonder why I even decided to roam,
setting aside my past for
a future which remains the same
It wasn’t always like this
There were faces between the frost
human illusions beneath the blizzard
as white conspired to swallow us all
steal away every last piece of warmth
But then, one day,
everything disappeared
Just as I was about to leave it all behind
the morning of my journalist excursion.
I shuffled from my bed
to a morning stiff with silence
A sky (writhe) with hate
paths soft and shifting like sands
Not a soul came to greet me;
I was truly alone, I knew
An anomaly I never believed was possible
besides the delusions the cleric would spout
and horrors the Leaders would burden upon us
Boulders that halted our progress
Suddered us chiller than the cold
Still, I hesitantly
donned my flight suit and
rested my helmet at my side
I almost slipped past the
leather notebook and wool pen
as I tried to find air to breathe
a single, remnant trace
of something to keep me alive
The world I had always known,
my home, the one I would soon leave,
had been reduced to snow
The first day, I surveyed from my door,
taking mental note of the white desert,
and returned back inside to curl up
in disbelief, in loneliness, in despair
but I didn’t cry- I conserved my energy for the truth
The following days, I entertained the possibilites
they were all buried, transformed into statues
they evaporated, some anomaly brought about by the snowflakes
the second wave from the Dueling struck
and killed off all the fire with ice
Anything
but there was nothing
just as the scene howled about me
Nothing. Nothing left for me
But me
That’s when I cried
The fifth day came upon me, and
I finished the last of the cave game stew
it felt raw and rotten to my stomach
My suit covered me like insurance
discipline
my notepad saught my side
I sighed, covering my face
to keep whatever life remained tucked tight
The snow howled even more,
teasing me as I soared to the sky
My armor managed to halt its daggers
as I broke the atmosphere
I promised
So I must, even now
as I dangle among the stars
of the Andromeda
but I know, someday,
I’ll have to return home