True Love is Ice

A lump of crystal blue
Shards of fissured white
The iceberg of desire
Looms mighty in the night
Seeing only one tenth
Of the turbulence of passion
Emitting such coolness of focus
To touch such chillness
Is to burn your skin
All the contradictions
Of love and freezing cold
An embrace to stop your heart
Shock it into new realms
The vast uncharted otherness
Alien landscape unrecognisable to ourselves
This is our world
This ice and white
so bright and new
Each touch changes
Mere caress of breath reshapes
The slopes and mounts of
The ice kingdom of our love
Eternal and unchanging
Beyond comprehension to alter
Unless summer hates burn
So brightly as to melt
That which seemed impenetrable
Our love's deep frozen core of trust.