You’re fire 
and sometimes ice
Oh, touch engraved
on unassuming skin. 

Desire burns
and it’s hard
to distinguish lone
sensation.

Your words pierce
as ice,
while gaze warms
as fire.

And,
yet towards want 
does my heart aspire.

 

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Our frame of reference is Fire & Ice from the title of Robert Frost’s poem.

Posted on ‘Sunday Mini-Challenge’ @ Real Toads

& Posted on the “Poetry Pantry” @ Poets United