The cold chills my bones
like hypodermic needles scratching stone.
I rose from the gutter,
thoughts fractured and cluttered,
made my way back home,
uninterrupted.
The streets were deserted,
the wind howled.
The sound was a choir of souls,
lamenting their former selves,
anguished they roam,
through purgatory, their home.
Now it is done.
The humming has ceased.
I asked the wind: ‘why?’
The answer whistled through trees,
across the ocean, in my dreams.
‘It is your time,’
I heard it say.
A circle formed.
I fell into ancient territory,
followed the rocks
along a misty peak,
fighting the wind, failing, dissolving.
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