Cold

[Helen Cooper]

Have you ever been cold?
I mean REALLY cold?
Have you ever felt that gnawing, biting, core-piercing cold
That wraps around you like chain mail?
A cold so deep you can't shiver;
That numbs the senses and confuses the mind?
Have you felt that grabbing, stabbing, jabbing,
Freezing, squeezing, chilling, killing, bone-brittling cold
Which grips so tightly even breathing hurts?
Have you ever been that cold?
I have been that cold,
I don't want to be that cold
Again!