Adrift

We Met by chance

A roll of the dice

A flip of a coin

A turn of a card

My heart was an iceberg

Floating in a lonely sea

Strong, cold, alone

Encased in this ice is my desire

  My love

               Myself

Removed from the world

Embraced by an unbreakable ice

Inside the ice lay my desires

Help

Love

Friendship

Caring

A call for help, buried in an impenetrable shell

A call, quieted by the frozen layers of indifference, separated, banished, forgotten

You saw beneath the shield

Your glow

                                   Smile

                     Warmth

            Eyes

   Heart

You melted the ice, saw beneath the shell

I still float in the sea

Still wrapped

But now with warmth and love

I let myself be seen

All with you by my side

Now, since I have gone afar, I have nobody beside me

But I do not despair for you are the lighthouse

Guiding my path, steering me from danger

I am forever grateful

Shearing the ice from my soul

Exposing me

I cannot express my gratitude with a poem

Nor with a gift

I can only begin to show this deepest debt with a promise

As far as I wander

My light will still shine for you

Wherever I roam

My door is open wide for you

And through all I do

You will never be forgotten