icy_dive Joana. I had dived into the depths of that lake before Thus warning myself of its cold nature And hesitantly I leaned my head above its still waters And gazed at the image that I cannot see I stared at her for seconds that spread throughout time And the eyes blurred by the liquid turbulence Were pulling me in again I did not struggle away And defied the sheer magnanimity of such strength And stared deeper, more profoundly than I had ever stared before For a split second I thought I had seen her move Unsynchronised with my own movement And I shivered with terror She seemed to form a slight smile with her rosy lips And I would tortuously strive to focus my eyes Make them clearer and attentive Yet her face had now become an image appearing within a mist And the thoughts in me were weighing down To a cold water that I had so desperately avoided The shock and tantalising subconsciousness overtake me And grow inside me, taking over my senses And for infinite hours I meander through vast silences Dark ceaselessly empty spaces Stretching my arms again to the weightlessness of them The galaxy that wasn't there before Its warm colours testify the coldness And I grin insanely at its beauty Am I mad... And I hear a sound Not possible, nor logical The silence is the only sound here And it's her, laughing at me Mocking me coldly And it's so cold... I feel the lungs and mouth bursting for air My iced eyes flooded and bleary And my body ascending sluggishly Until it reaches the surface I glance up, as it lies down dead and cold While the time-keeper holds the lungs in his hands And stares at me blankly As if looking at a corpse Pumping the lungs violently Smashing them with his hands I beg him not to, but he cannot hear So I fly across the mountains Breathless and cold And fight to catch the glimpse And as it grows nearer I smile Relieved to see those pale hands at last And nestle in them foetus-like and shaking Patiently awaiting the hope that will one day come. 000927 what's it to you? who go blather from