I'm scared to face you,
though I feel like I've known you all along.
Terrified to feel your touch,
afraid to gaze too long.

I've had to lock up my heart, for fear
that you will steal it away.
Too many times I have been hurt,
too many times led astray.

No matter how much I may want to love you,
my darling, I cannot.
Feelings and emotions are banished to an icy realm
that love has long since forgot.

Glaciers surround my frozen heart,
for it is never to be found,
covered in icy sorrow,
where misery does abound.

Preferring a life of heartless existence
than to ever love again.
Not even at love's insistence,
shall my heart ever be free again.

February 6, 2004