Velvet
by Naomi Briggs
Warm fuzzy frosted fire
Against the coldness in my blue blood,
All bottled up against the storm of hate and love,
It piles up garbage inside my landfill,
I see the way this hollow builds the frustrations
And the rawness...
I forgot the madness in your fingernails;
Small, the light etched through the darkness.
I know in the cold where it all began,
Laying fragile and thin in the frigid night.