Glacier

V. Walker’s 4/6 challenge was a doozy: write a poem based on a random article from Wikipedia. I lucked out and now I have another piece for my still upcoming Climate Change collection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Piedmont_Glacier

I was soft, 
warm tears
sailing down
the valleys 
stenciled on her face
soft, warm tears
puddling at the fjord
of her heart 

I was time
deepening the 
canyons on her face
softening her contours
slowing her pace 

I was ice
hardening those tears
slowly forming a glacier 
where her heart once beat
now a monument
to the pain 
you caused your mother

I am heat from deep within
the scars she bears 
from your birth

I will melt the ice and
you will hear only echoes 
of my laughter
as the tides roll in
and drown out
your futile cries for mercy