https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd_-qkJdGfw

footsteps in snow
two red clouds flying
in a world of grey
"hold my hand tight!
dont turn back"
"my feet are wet...
remember when my mother
hit me over damp socks?"
"i shouldnt have let her...
i'll draw them, i promised
bare and white
in flowers of blue"
frozen wisps
leaving their flushed cheeks
"and my lips?"
heavy breathing
"kiss them,
kiss them for each summer
the sun saw
your golden locks"
"yey! thats 14 kisses
you naughty girl"
but soon a cough
echoed down
the brown skeletons
of this empty forest
"i... cant breathe"
"dont stop. we cant stop."
they had reached the lake
"lets cross it,
dont worry,
the cars will not dare
go on ice...
remember how i promised you
i'll tie my hair to yours
so we will never be apart?
in 15 knots
one for each empty autumn
empty for i had not known you"
"i love you"

but the winter did not forgive
and sinners are never forgotten
the small one fell
in her own frozen tears
gentle hands righted her
and squeezed her
followed by a mutual twitch
for a distant buzz echoed the valley
and the body remembered
that which the mind could forget
"if we talk to the..."
"you think they want to talk?
dont talk! they will never understand...
we did what we should never have
we...
we are what they will never allow
but they'll never change us!"
the older one's arm trembled
as the small one lifted hers
she gasped
"look! we are glued as one!"
ten fingers
of porcelain made for caresses
like porphyry were pierced
by crimson black veins...
frozen blood had joined them
trickling down rivers
red as youth
weaving like lace
around her wrist
long and eternal
from their secret spring
above an elbow
that the most graceful deer
would envy
a crater on the moon
a nose bleed above the pages
of 'Anactoria and Sappho'
which she gave her with a wink
for their first month together...
above all that
insignificant in comparison
a bullet hole

and as the small one leaned
and kissed it
a frozen Freesia
tumbled out of her pocket
"you kept it!"
lips on blood smiled
the older one gasped
a sudden saltiness
stung her wound
a snake was heard
a flash lit the twilight sky
and the small one fell again
followed by a scream

as the older one grasped her again
no one knows
what she whispered then
what gods she begged
how she prayed
that there only be
her beloved's Led Zeppelin shirt
when she looks again...

an eternity later
when she dared see
there was warmth everywhere
liquid warmth
like when they made love
but this time
it was all over her chest
above it a smile

now it was the small one's turn
"remember when you threw...
flower pots at everyone...
laughing at us in school
for kissing on the stairs?...
how you knew
i was reading Jim Morrison..."
"dont talk"
"in the school library
when we met
how you kicked me
under the table"
she managed a tiny laughter
"your boyfriend had
just dumped you..."
"for not letting him
be in my mouth"
"please, big girl,
tell me a about us again..."

"we...
we will walk the world
we will go to India to eat
that chilly chicken
that makes you cry"
thank god the small one laughed
"we will dance in Rio
till the morning sun
comes from the Sea,
we will get lost
in the ruins of Rome
amidst the smell of pizza,
you'll chase squarrels
in...
in the Buchenwald
like you...
dreamt... to...."

she was cold
cold as the ice
under their knees
the old one's eyes widened
her non glued hand -
"non glued,
what a silly girl"
she thought and smiled -
reached for her pocket
stood up
a frozen smile
hand outstretched
towards the horizon
shot three times
another flash answered
and she was a rag doll
quietly slumped
on her beloved's bed
where they first held hands
below the posters of Placebo

then the lake opened up

you see lake Everblue
had never melted
in recorded history
so cold and high
was the mountain
in which it made its home
but that day
the Sun rose
above a cracked crystal tear
glued back together
by the frozen morning dew
"what is once broken..." right?

when the helicopter
failed to register
any living beings below,
the pilot turning round
saw no memory
of what had transpired
but the color of the lake's waters
that gave it its name
they were now red
crimson red
like the hair of two girls
that had accidentally
gone missing in the area
naturally, he attributed it
to the sky,
blushing with fire