I hold my breath and go under
ice breaks against my skin
a chill as i open my eyes
a different world beneath the ice
a different kind of reality
a different kind of dread
a different kind of life
and of course
a different dead
a new kind of freezing
races across my spine
it traces against my bones
it wants my heart
it breathes in cold
it flecks my fingers with frostbite
it paints my hands with black
it threatens to suffocate
but yet it never attacks
it makes me swim even farther
but my head starts to spin
the dark creeping up fingers
they almost want to break
the cold, its trying to take
i start to struggle, i start to cry
frozen tear drops dot my eyes
the ice cracks above me
and soon im dragged out
ambulances wail for a frozen body
a shiver and a twitch
with heavy hearts they turn around
with heavy eyes they cry
a single crack, a little slip
i die
a plunge beneath the ice
