Ice-cold walls rise around me

Like sheets of an ethereal mirror

That reflects what's on my mind,

In my heart.

Freezing me in place, the ice engulfs me

Holding me still at the point between zero and infinity

Where both extremes are nothing

But cold, still ice.

My breathing stops, my heartbeat stills;

The ice takes over my body;

I'm numb.

Tremors rock me, and the ice cracks,

I lose my self-control.

I claw at it, hack at it, curse it;

The ice silent, cold, unyielding.

I lay my hands upon it, and it begins to melt.

Deep within the thick ice sheet, there's a sleeping dragon I must set free.

The ice seeps into my veins, chilling me.

I don't care;

The ice water drives me on.