Sometimes You Risk the Melt

How can you love me

when I am such

an oddity?

My skin is

warm to the touch,

but my heartbeat

is measured in icicles.

Each time I look across

the room into your

porcelain eyes I read

desire in their blue flames

and I feel my insecurity

melt in your gaze.

I must admit there are times

I fear love has an expiration date

that only fate knows.

The frost in my veins

writes each precious day

with you into my memory

and to think there could be

circumstances looming

that could separate us haunts me.

Oh darling, today is our

only certainty and I musn’t spoil it

with searching the darkness for ghosts.

It doesn’t matter

if we are fire and ice.

I would rather risk

death by flames than

to live my days

in frozen seclusion

without you.

©Susie Clevenger 2013

Kerry at Real Toads had us writing about love between two inanimate objects. For some reason I went with stove and refrigerator. Could that sound even less romantic? The Sunday Mini-Challenge ~ A Love Letter