The Icicle Princess - by Vicente Reyes

The Icicle Princess in Summer

Come let the cascade fall when the ribbons melt and like silky waters

In the thawing season will caress the intricate trails in the wilderness,

Your hair will unfold on your shoulders fair and your rose tinted kiss

Will bloom in joy when your heated breath will be as one with mine.

I feel your glow melt my icy heart as even the spring sun on the snow

Will touch the silent crystals’ soul like light of a radiant diamond may

Fall in rainbows from the sky and turn the coal night into blazing day.

The world is an igloo and our heat is like a spark from a higher power.

We feel it within as the winter wind whispers in the trees of the forest,

As the mountain peak howls with the distant storm that would descend

But for the skins that cover our shelter on this solitary wooded slope.

Follow me in a tunnel of light through evergreens where the sun shines

And we have held hands and marked animal tracks with crunched steps,

Teasing old man winter by making bird sounds at feathered skies.

Let the freezing hours chill as I hold you tight in our steam filled night.

There is no piercing of the bond between eternity and us and we love

As though forever we shall be lovers through the seasons. Let all time

Blend the hours and days into one as even purple grapes in the press

Surrender their hearts into one cask of wine. Come closer sweet one,

Though it be summer still and we walk gentle breezes on the hill,

Though the meadow lark sings and the turtle dove brings laughter.

We share divine love and gaze at the oil painted sunset with desire

Seeking sleepless darkness where we may keep if we find eternal fire.

October 29, 2000

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