Glacier

From a geological study of glaciers at the University of Mobile
under the professor Mimi Fearn (best teacher ever).

May 3, 1995

Loneliness is the glaciation of the heart
Where warmth once did flow
But everything now is cold
And time glides by so slow.

The glaciers strong and silent prison
Beyond the surface deep below
Contains the remains the heart envisioned
That once had the life to grow.

The painful erosion of time and scope
Between the mountains of my mind
Cut chunks out of established valleys of hope
Leaving deeper scars behind

Lying beneath this icy sheet
Melting on a bed of rock
My moraine of ink at its retreat
Is all that I have got.

Melanie Lynch (Evans)