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Fire and Ice
Why do we contradict ourselves so much?
 Hate is fire, yet love is fire, burning brilliant under the same God forsaken sun
 Who burns, too, for a world that remains ice frozen because of that fire
 Fire and ice 
 Fire and ice
 With all this fire, shouldn't the ice melt?
 And when the ice melts, wouldn't the water left douse the concoction of fire?
 What then would make us?
 What elements left?
 Wind and dust 
 Wind and dust
 Drifting with only the reason to drift
 And still so still
 Without the fire
 And the ice
 Love and hate, hate and love
 The sun, the moon
 All fire and ice
 A mixture that shouldn't exist
 Couldn't exist
 Without those hand that remain holding in the midst of fire and ice
 As a barrier
 Burning
 Freezing
 In fire and ice

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"il piu nell' uno," (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)<br /> <br /> "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality" ~Emily Dickinson<br /> <br /> "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain" <br /> ~Kahlil Gibran