1.
The walls of your palace are made of snow.
The game of reason is cold and slow.
2.
You cannot tell your love apart:
The Queen of Ice sits in your heart.
3.
How well we understand in tongues unknown
The word that in English is pronounced ‘alone’.
4.
Always the crow knows where your love went,
Though he speaks harshly and with an accent.
5.
How soon it happened: just a while ago
You held my hands and walked in sand or snow.
6.
The last story cannot be told:
Its words were patented and sold.
(from Man of Glass, HarperCollins, Delhi, 2010)
