Terrible Contrast - Terrible Similarity

in poetry •  6 years ago 

Deep dark icy water
Deep and blue and cold
Jagged ice
Purple and blue

Rain, hard
Sleet rain
Big drops
A curtain of icy rain

Heaving waves
Mountains of ice, Ice bergs

Deep dark cold

Death

As opposed to…

Barrenness, dry, sparse plants
Warm wind
Beating down, ceaseless blinding sun
No water, thirst.

Burning, sweating, de-hydrating, collapsing

Deep shadows, dark cave

Deep dark cold

Death

  • Written by Omar Daniel Fourie (85% water), 30 November 2018.

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