alive

The stars are reflected in the glimmer of the headlamp's light on the snow

And the air is frozen-- it feels like the sensation of holding your hand under water so burning hot that

it begins to feel cold

somehow.

Nothing could be more perfect than feeling air rush in and out of lungs, feeling alive when all is still

I am alive.

wildcat

VT

16 years old

More by wildcat

  • The Moon

    The moon whispers

    Oh so quietly, yet

    It is louder than all else

    Its words wind through the frozen trees and dance across the sparkling snow, the forest still but for its wavering reminder that

  • November

    A day as grey as

    the clouds above it

    And the hills, which have changed from green to orange to purple to a deepest blue in the fading light

    with a few bursts of yellow from the beech trees, holding on in their marcescence

  • pondering

    If life is full of the little things

    like skating on smooth black ice and laughing with a friend

    then I have nothing to look forward to

    because there is good in every day.