End ICE
I don't want to melt ice
I just want to get rid of it
because I will not
drown in it
I refuse to let it
smother me
I refuse to let us
plunge in that fridgid water
I refuse to let us open up pandoras box
I will not be swept away by ice
I will not let ice sweep a precious baby into
sharks and glaciers
I will not be shoved in death when I have a warrant to be alive
I cannot let them dictate my deathbed
End Ice
Get rid of Ice
Swiftly and quickly
like they are doing now to our lives
Futures torn because when ice melts
it rains
it cries
it destroys
as long as it can reshape
ICE will take lives
So I will not
melt ice
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▾ This Poem's Voice
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PersonalThemeAbstract
Blends personal refusal with abstract climate/existential stakes
SparseMeasureDense
Multiple interconnected ideas: survival, agency, destruction, climate
DarkSentimentBright
Deeply negative; fear, refusal, death imagery dominate
StillEnergyExplosive
Intense repetition of 'refuse,' 'will not'; urgent, defiant tone
MicroLengthEpic
31 lines; mid-length poem
PlainFigurativeOrnamented
Rich metaphor (ice=death/climate threat), personification, Pandora's box allusion
LyricVoiceDramatic
Primarily lyric internal voice with some dramatic declaration
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