A Heart No Longer Cold

I laugh, I talk,

There's a lightness when I walk.

I smile and hide

All the pain I feel  inside.

I scowl and glare,

Show my fiercest stare.

Grow fists to hide

All the fear I feel inside.

Made of rock, made of stone.

A heart grows cold when left alone.

But this armor of ice

Protects only strife.

The girl behind,

With shadows on her mind,

Carved herself a mask of stone.

But her heart didn't want to be alone.

Then you came.

To calm and tame

The feelings that swirled beneath.

You saw what was lost.

You melted the frost

And found what had been hidden.

You set her free.

You let her see

What was really in the looking glass.