Dance On The Ice

Whistling winds whisper

What words of salvation you encounter

He who hears and truly hears is familiar

With the voice whose words clothe you in sartorial stanzas

Weaving you into the royal garb for the choreography that beckons

Blistering barnacles

They are splinters of the soul

Put together to carry a message so clear

They mark men as sea buoys

They show them to be as free as the uninhibited flow of the sea

Anchored intercedents

They are purposeful warnings of open dangers

Reliable guiding lights in the expanse of turbulent waters

Broken manacles

On the wings of freedom, they reach unparalleled heights

Their flight enchants the avian lifeform

To whom belongs the manifested ability of flight

And as they look on, wide-eyed, they become

Engulfed by the displayed awesomeness

They see in you

Weightless clavicles

Unburdened to carry and connect

Without pain, strife or discontent

Free then, free now, free forever

No longer held at ransom

And everything flowing from them, now skates on the rollerblades of ease

By the might of He who pens fate and weaves life in all its wholeness sans heave

Dance on the ice

Sway to the cold’s hum and drum

There is more spice to taste in winter’s abode

Till your buds are bathed in sweetness untold

Lathered in the blandness of the searing cold

Even there, for the price of nothing, is joy found and sold

Listen, there is more peace to behold

Step onto her summoning threshold

And be struck by her lightning, a thousandfold

Till her touch leaves a Lichtenberg figure of calm’s presence, in bold

Then your feet can walk in true temperance

And your icy hearts will shower love in torrents unheard

Till it is kept in eternal remembrance

Like a crystal which captures beautiful experiences

Away from oblivion’s breath and hold

Now you move, gliding by freed feet

Journeying from the west to the east

Having traversed the fleet of life’s seethe

With soles scorched by the world’s ire and its heat

The ice welcomes you and leaves relief’s receipt

Dance on the ice

Dance on the ice

Dance on the ice!