For Janet and Richard (R.I.P) Your memories arejust like ice.


Just like Ice

When upon your still body
My wide eyes rested,
I thought of you.....
Then I thought of ice.


You were like ice- solid ,strong,smooth.
There were those cold moments,
When between us a glacier stood.
And sharp precipices in our hearts solidified:
Pricking our souls ,our friendship,our peace.
But like a tumultous avalanche your defence tumbled,
Sending me glorious shower of your snow.
A beam of light reflected off your glassy surface
And shone a rainbow to my heart cold.
Like a safety beacon you shone;
Beautifully blinding.
Then I thought of how ice cures sprains-
Something cold on something warm-a healing
I felt your ice on my pain.


Then there were those hot summer days,
When my heart stood withered and desolate,
And the pitter patter of the rain
Was a ballad long forgotten.
You melted above me....
Like beautiful rain you drenched my parched soul-
Drenched every part of me with loving drops,
And cooled the very depths of my razing soul...
Now you lay in that white casket- cold,
Like the Ice queen of the Arctica:
Beautifully still like sculptured ice.


Andjust like icepreserves,
I hope ,I wish ,I pray......
That your beauty,your memory,your life:
All these shall be preserved
To tell thosewho knew you not,
That your life was just like ice-cream
Whose sweetness last in the mouth for a short while-
And then it is gone.


You were my ice-cream.




Poetry by she
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Written on 2006-03-21 at 11:38

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Zoya Zaidi
That is such an inspired piece dear she!
Love the metaphor of ice!
The way you have developed it, it is simply as smooth as the ice (no pun intended here)...the solid rock, the cold, the smoothness, the rays refracting of it and breaking into a rain bow...everything is simply beautiful...the imagery brings alive a Antarctica to me...
Just love these lines:

"There were those cold moments,
When between us a glacier stood.
And sharp precipices in our hearts solidified:
Pricking our souls, our friendship, our peace."

((((((Hugs dear She)))))
Love, xxx, Zoya
2006-03-22