‘a plea to lights treachery’

 Winter, teach me

how to love
you:

how to embrace
your cold
calculating arms

your cruel
iced laced
charms

And

how
to warm your frozen fingers
(against my skin)
as I pull you in;
away from
your own vain
vapour

(teach me Winter...
   ...teach me how
 to love 

* you  *)


                       ~   SarahA. O’Leary Copyright ©  2017

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