Snow Queen, Poison Heart
A Pantum
Neil Willcox
The poison creeps slowly into my heart –
It has been there since the day I was born.
Introduced too early by a crystalline dart.
Villain or Saviour? Between these I’m torn.
It has been there since the day I was born,
Killing by inches for what I will do.
Villain or Saviour; between these I’m torn.
Death, my companion, I shall follow through.
Killing by inches for what I will do,
Doomed by prophecy to freeze the world up.
Death my companion? I shall follow through:
If this is my fate then come share my cup.
Doomed by prophecy to freeze the world up,
Introduced too early by a crystalline dart;
If this is my fate then come share my cup –
The poison creeps slowly into my heart.
