My love is ice, and I am fire;
How is it then that this her cold, so great
Is not warmed through my desire, so hot,
But colder grows the more I her pursue?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
Her touch alone, glacial in feel, threatens to extinguish my life
Her love denied, my body taken, ravaged, used and discarded
A frozen husk
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which is congealed with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
COMMENTS
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Joli
23:27 Aug 15 2008
"Well I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre
Could be burning on the edge, of the ice field"
captainglobehead
13:34 Aug 20 2008
Nice. Meatloaf. I'm flattered that this made you think of one of his ballads.