Cold hands wink sarcastically
to a warm heart as they chuckle
awkwardly at a - once too many
times repeated - cliché of a joke

Grazed knees, and, palms - still sore -
encounter a slip, trip, and, fall
from getting ahead of themselves

A furrowed brow delves and burrows
millimeter by millimeter into the skin
that left it so helplessly on show

Cold feet cuddle a cold shoulder
all three stand huddled by the smouldering...