We Glaciate

Frozen in our terror, we glaciate,
an enormous hulk, an enormous bulk
travels within us, but also as us
we can’t taste flavors of experience

we live by rote will, we endure
without any clue to what we endure
we live, yet what we live’s not half a life
but vanishingly less, notihng’s neighbor

the predicament of a captive locked
without a clue to the captivity,
what constitutes it, what was the sentence
the frozen tongue cannot make a defense

when a thaw comes, there is the flood of pain,
melting glacier reveals its dark treasure