Stepping on cold stares
as the icy glare of universal
awareness cuts through

Sharp pains intensify
as dormant minds awaken from
a frostbite state of reality

Frozen thoughts transition
finding warmth too tempting to deny
though thawing is risky

Too much, too fast, could
terminate the possibilities
not enough could end the same

Confining cubes crack
melting minds find themselves
alive in the after-thaw

New crystals form in patterns
envied by dying eyesicles whose
frozen lungs still long to breathe

Frigid thoughts defrost
in evolutions of heat
releasing freedom

Inhibition steams impatiently
rising on transmuting winds
anxious to reach heaven

-Alisha Jael