(Off)Spring Thaw

The cold season started at thirteen

Warm hugs turned to “too cool” indifference

“You just don’t understand!”

There’s no way to bundle up against that kind of cold

So the heat gets turned up

Some days she really made me want to pull my hair out

The icy heat of disdain

Is sometimes a welcome relief from the belligerence

Seven years of this weather, the end may be in sight

Spring is just around the corner

Praying, waiting for the thaw

Unsure if I’ll last the winter

And then…

An unannounced visit to her work
And what I saw warmed me all the way through

I knew spring would come

I saw it in the warm sunshine that lit her smile

And blazed out of her eyes
The happiness and surprise

When she first saw me

I will survive this winter

We will survive this winter

Spring is just around the corner