That place that you seek
My soul is a vast ocean
undiscovered and uncharted
The surface constantly shifting
transforming in a manner that hinders clarity
Obscuring what lies beneath, beneath the mirror
that only reveals what it wants you see
You cannot hold it in your hands
for it is a chameleon, a shapeshifter
Colourless, like an icicle against the night
slipping silently through your fingers
Fading out of sight, only to reappear
in your peripheral vision, shifting like shadows
Dancing in time with unheard melodies
drifting in and out of light
Spinning you around and around
to the sound of songs that you cannot recall
Until the darkness is circling and you are starting to fall
a wild longing still calling to you
From a faraway place in time and space
that place that you seek, that is mine to keep
The ice now thin beneath your feet
creaking like ropes on an ancient boat
Moving side to side as you start to slide
into the frozen grasp of my soul’s embrace
Where the sculptor within carves you into my veins
and your colours are bleeding into my depths
Soon to reflect in my shifting surface
a new shade, a new skin to draw the light in
For my soul undisguised is always hungry
and feeds on the life above the ice
You were always the day to my night
and there was no undoing it
Now deep within my realms you will remain
my surface now shifting once again
My mirror painting you anew
within the dark terrain
Transforming your colours
into winter’s sombre notes of ice and wind
Your earthly form
never to be seen again
© Ann Bagnall
