The Past

Snowflakes
drop on my cheeks,
as if they try to heal
my frozen heart.

The touch of them
is warmer than
your skin that I craved before.
The whiteness of them
is purer than
your eyes that I gazed at before.

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Yuu Ikeda is a Japan-based poet. Her latest poetry collection Seasons Echoing Around Me was published by Free Lines Press.

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