Melancholy

My soul is winter under the sun, I tremble with the cold that the melted ice has left me, alone. The warmth I held in my hands like a bird with wet wings, my frozen hands. In a desert where rain falls like buckets of blazing water my eyes know only the darkest clouds. Even when the sun shines to burn my back I look deep into it, to blind me so when the blue sky comes to greet me in the deadness of each morning I would not see it.