Water

My bare foot touches the snow.

The moist crystals shatter like tears,

They scream but no one hears.

My bare legs follow the trail.

The vail cascades like a white waterfall,

It pulls me down in its frigid flow.

My bare shoulders feel the cold.

The snowflakes fall like a torrent of feathers,

They freeze me to the bone.

My bare face emerges onto the lake.

The forest recedes behind me like a wave of flanking soldiers,

It abandons me in the vast open.

My bare feet feel the waves.

The ripples lick my toes like the tongues of hounds,

They swamp and saturate my foundations.

My bare legs embrace the water.

The lake engulfs me like a pelicans mouth,

It lures me into it's vast blue beauty.

My bare face breaks the surface.

The sea of life swallows me like Mother Nature herself.

I toss and turn under the surface.

And I am finally reborn into the lifeline that has surrounded me for ever.