Winter has a different meaning for us,
it reaches and enfolds you and I
like some whisper between lovers
making our covenants in the dark,
unafraid of what may pierce the heart.

You remember how to open after a while
and I've known you in all seasons,
spring rain on fingertips when 
you first touched my cheek 
softly as if I'd somehow break.

Summer heat searing pores
when our lips first met
in the city and I was already
lost in the haze of a neon dream
painting electronic rainbows
throbbing across skin.

Autumn moonlight filling your eyes 
like silver gliding along oceans and glades,
winter's first caress against soft ochre
when you embraced and pulled me inside you,
that's what really pierced our hearts.

We made love near firelight,
the raw natural glow of the burning earth,
we torch what cannot ever be tamed,
what cannot be entirely understood.

Winter has a special meaning for us,
it reaches and warms you and I
like promises whispered between lovers,
making our covenants in some sacred night,
unafraid of what can pierce the heart.

You remember how to open after a while
and I taste our entire history there,
spring rain splashing on pressed lips,
heat from sunset in every strand of hair,
earthbound leaves sweetening air while fluttering
and barely touching yet as if scared to break,
snow already blanketing your home,
asleep in my arms in the darkened dawn.

Before this we made love beneath starlight,
the raw natural radiance of heavens 
already handing us the torched remnants,
we only get to see a memory
of those distant celestial fires,
a beautiful flash that will outlive flesh,
we don't need to understand the glow 
to let its beauty pour over us.

And much like how we see that flare
long after it has ebbed away,
the memories of our bare skin,
warm slick velvet possessively clamping,
confessing that I've always been yours,
a burst deep inside answering that claim,
you will forever remain with me
like the afterimage from the boundless above. 

And winter has always belonged to us,
it reaches through any unfathomable divide
to caress and cradle us beyond the thaw,
beyond whatever pierced our hearts.