Power Outage Lesson
Heat escapes
through closet doors
and breathes the frozen oxygen
my body slowly cools
beneath a doubled comforter
O! I see a flash
a flash of my mortality!
A creep of winter
spies my feet
and dances along my tender skin.
In frantic fear
my feet draw near
and haunt the luring warmth.
O please it's been eternity
since I could feel
a pleasant chill
instead ~
a bite!
get out!
please leave my wretched sight!
Then minutes turn to hours till
I come to terms with frozen ill
I'll die here in my cloth cocoon...
Then
BZZZZZZZT!
the blast of light and hums
a ray of artificial light!
appliances come racing on
and tear a mortal thought away
..I'll live to see another day.
And through a blissful smile, a faint
but necessary thought arises..
Be thankful for the little things
no matter what their guises.
Copyright © Tammy Armstrong | Year Posted 2009
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