Created: 1-18-05

Word Count: 106

Summer Thaw

Dark. Cold. Aloof. Descriptive words, comforting words, words a lifetime had been spent acquiring. Ice, frozen, emotionless, they claimed. He welcomed the comparison. Then she arrived, sunshine, warmth, concern, laughter, summer to his winter.

Years passed. The child grew into a young lady then to an old woman. Even in the autumn and winter of her life she offered him the warm sunshine of her smile, slowly thawing his armor of ice.

None heard the ice around his heart crack. None saw the warmth that came to golden eyes. None but she saw the soft smile that graced his face when they sat alone in silence.