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Winter Nightmares

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Winter winds whistling whipping through your hair


     circling diving screaming howling in the air


banshees wailing with a knife-sharp scream


    shattering hope and song and dream


tearing through your skin and leaving you raw


   gathering the world in their sharp-toothed maw


chill pervades your very soul

   terror and tremors swallow you whole

skeleton-thin you feel alone

   and then the phantoms start to moan

fear turns to sorrow and darkness and cold

ghosts gather round you as your soul starts to mold

decaying and desiccated rotting death

why should you bother to take another breath


   and then the snow starts to fall and blankets the ground

 
  softly sighing and whispering ‘round

 
   gentle as moondust it falls on your skin



as you are slowly reborn again
I usually don't really premeditate what I write, I just sit down and start typing. I also make very few revisions, if any. (So if it's terrible, that's why XD)
Anyway. Ever feel suddenly alone and afraid when you look outside at wintertime? Everything looks bleak and bare. Then you see a cardinal fly by or a snowflake fall and your mood shifts to contentment and wonder. I suppose it's our primordial fear of cold giving way gradually to a feeling of safety, now that we have warm houses and hot cocoa, so we can begin to appreciate the wonder of winter instead of shrinking from it. I really talk too much once I get started, don't I?
Oh and I almost forgot, this is also a submission for this contest: Contest 15 - Myths in Winter - About 3 weeks left!
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