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My breath emerges in a fog
It's well below 0 degrees
Yet here I am
Standing at the edge of the lake
I look at myself in the crystal water
.
My eyes are shallow
My face
slender and pale
Save for the red burning my face from the cold
I feel it well up inside me
And I scream
I scream loud enough to shatter the frail ice that once hit the lake
I scream loud enough to awake the hibernating life
I scream loud enough to break my fragile voice
My voice is now gone
It seems i've lost it
It also seems i've screamed loud enough to awaken you
I go to speak but my voice is still shattered
Ive said too much.
You were right when you said silence would keep trouble away.

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