The Great Freeze

There’s peace here

Rest that resets bones

Silence that soothes

Frozen grass that crackle underfoot

as I walk barefoot towards my dawn.

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My soles are chilled, but no matter

Here, we think nothing of such things

We come here for the rebirth

for hibernation

for ice.

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I used to liken a freeze to death

Years have made me wiser.

To chill my blood, to crawl into cold encapsulation

is love

is life.

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Sleep now

The moon will rock you

At dawn’s rays

you’ll be ready.