Forever

My soul soaked in alcohol,
I tried to find the flame of you,
to burn me free forever.

Now, on the walk home from the bar,

I try to find my footing through
a slush of feeling, trapped inside

the winter of my heart.
Shouting if I never find you, this
is not my world, but some alien place 

Some dream—a snow storm in the emptiness
containing everything forever—
and me, nothing but a set of footprints,

a snap of ice, an exhalation;
a shadow plodding forward through
a silent, never-ending street.