Nights like tonight leave me aching for the water. I want to undress completely and jump. I want to absorb the freezing liquid as it brushes my shivering limbs. I want to float on my back and embrace the cold. I want to savor my flesh above surface, where the wind can tickle and cut. I want to feel my skin tighten and my scalp prickle and my teeth chatter and my heart clench. I want to gently rock until I have control of everything that is mine: until the muscles relax and the breathing slows and the chattering subsides, and as my heart gradually decompresses. I want to experience a baptism of my own design. I want to step out of the water and be cleansed.
I want to wake up new.
Please, remember me, happily, by the rosebush laughing.
- Grace
- Florence, Alabama, United States
- Dancing in both directions at once so everyone won't notice that she's never heard this song before.
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