My face aflame

on this cold

winter’s day

To say nothing of

the rest of me

No frost, no ice,

no fall of snow,

could ever compete

With the blaze that smolders

everytime we meet

No wet, no mist,

no torrential downpour,

could ever hope to drown

Even embers would survive

such is their heat

So come let us light

the match between us

and watch it burn