Frosbite

Melanie Ortiz-Álvarez de la Campa
Departamento de Biología
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, UPR RP

what if the devil ran cold?

would your touch burn on my frozen skin,

or thaw my fingers in your presence?

what if hell froze over?

would you remain my eternal damnation,

or cast my sentence in hitched breaths?

what if a phoenix rose from snow?

would it bury us in an avalanche,

or preserve us in a block of ice?

what if fire could cool us?

would your passion feel like frostbite,

or continue to melt my core?