Leave me breathless as I grasp for meaning. The light of the sun, growing warm with age, flows around my body, leaving room for the cold darkness of night to embrace my naked body. I stand in defiance of the wind, lapping at my ankles, and way over my head. The small break of withering natural silence is broken by a gasp as the reality of the situation breaks open upon my consciousness. Nothing I have ever done could prepare me for the moment where the culmination of life feels all but certain.
