“I close my eyes and burn again With frost within my heart No cage could tame the wild Our oath still tears apart”

I close my eyes and burn again—  
An ember lost to winter’s art—  
There’s frost enwreathed within my heart,  
A silent blaze that won’t remain.

No cage could tame the wild, the free,  
The wound beneath our sacred vow;  
It lives, it breaks, it shivers now  
Across the fractured memory.

We spoke in storms and fled from flame,  
Yet even ash is proof of fire;  
The promise, torn yet never tired,  
Still haunts my lips with bitter name.

Desire is wind—untamed, unwise—  
It shakes the bars and rends apart  
The walls that bind a thawing heart—  
And so I burn behind closed eyes.

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