“you think water moves fast? you should see ice. it moves like it has a mind. like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder . . . nature is lethal but it doesn’t hold a candle to man. — russell franklin (samuel l. jackson) in the movie deep blue sea
cold. frozen. unyielding. inhuman. inhumane. emotionless. blindingly white. violent. brutal. unrestrained.
deadly.
ice, set free upon the world, flows bridle free. crushing. destroying. everything in its path. wood and steel become paper. flesh less. no thing stands in its way. the surge, unrepentant; no morality. it can be protective, insulate life. not because of desire. it was birthed as simply . . . ice. circumstance matters. there is silence. not peace. just . . . hush. a breath. a step. a look. crack. pause. ccrrracckk!! disbelief, panic as a wind sweeps, announcing the onslaught, before the force. any thing, person, in the way ground down. or captured. consigned to an unwilling tomb. until, unless, someone comes along, too late, and frees the debris, remains, for posterity.
ice destroys the good and the pretti — with no remorse.
leaves behind destruction; evil and ugli.
it’s done it before. will again. it has tasted red. blood dripping. addicting. exhilarating.
no justice. just ice.
i.c.e.