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Fire & Ice

A Haiku Trilogy of Forbidden Love & Tragedy

1 min readNov 17, 2025

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Fire burns for Ice,
Fingers reach, frost pulls away —
Desire scorches cold.

Embrace cannot last,
He melts her brilliance to ash,
Love dies in the blaze.

Alone, he smolders,
Ashes whisper of her chill,
Heart frozen in flame.

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