The glacier oar

 

 

I could peep into crevices

Those hairline fissures

Where the two sides of glacier

Barely manage to breathe

Into the sighs of each other

Like the  parting moment

Of a nascent calf in a barn

Your façade is frigid and callous

It freezes the oozing emotions

That find the way out ftom cracks

Like a futile oar on a glacier

I eternally wait for the thaw

The blurred signs from behind ice

Of a capsized vessel that knocks feebly

On these white doors of apathy

Oh I wish I could row the glacier

Away from the top of serene waters

But the magma of indifference

Leaks silently from the deep burrows

And dies a stony death on ice

The oar on the glacier continues

To wait for the thawed rock of ice.

 

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