melting with it

Chapter: Spring

Can you come up with
just one reason to explain
why we couldn’t walk
across the park hand in hand
so that everyone could see?

Even if I had
revealed my true emotions
that dark night by the
fire, you’d still have chosen
differently. For you knew.

Frost has drawn your face
on the glass as if mocking
yesterday. I sigh
and it melts. I hope you are
melting with it, vanishing.