ice age

I know I cut my teeth
on anything that gets close to me
It’s felt so long
I’ve been alone
taking their lives
 
I heard the morning come
felt it shiver like a frozen lover
It turns away
It knows my face
burns in the light.

I hold you in
like smoke in the ice age
It never ends
this cold heart’s the ice age.

Your sky is blue
shines on the water
Your sun’s so bright
but  can’t melt the ice
it just makes it cry

I heard the morning come
felt it whimper like a beaten lover
It turns away
It hides its face
from my fingers

still I hold you in
preserve your bones,
your skin
perfect in my ice age

I know I cut my teeth
on anybody sailin’ close to me
I’m overboard,
titanic deep
tectonic loud
just an ice age