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Could you tell me

which is worse

the end

or the wait for it?

I was not unlike the rest

I too failed the test

the attempt to find warmth

in this frozen world

Awaiting my demise

I have time to revise

tell my story

in a way I please

But what to say

and to whom?

Abandoned in the icy plains

only the wind as my company

Buried in the snow

the coldness takes my breath away

the battle lost

I'm gone

I'm facing defeat

Covered in ice

the coldness kills my heart beat

I tried

I failed

I'm freezing to death!

If I tell you my story

will you let me live?

If you know my face

will you let me breathe?

We could be friends

instead of enemies

or we could just

leave each other be

To avoid this fate

I'll do what it takes

I'll sell my soul

to the icy storm

To save my life

I'll even converse

with the unforgiving breeze

and the enclosing death

Isn't there something truly magnificient

in the way a proper blizzard lays waste

to so many human lives?

The death, the misery, the total agony,

what a perversely fascinating slideshow

of poor human fates!

Mind broken, body dying

nothing left but a final attempt

no other escape from the

tormenting breeze

You tried, you tried, you tried

there's nothing left

no way to reason with death

Light fading, hope in vain

everything is for nothing

you'll shout your pleas

to non-existing ears

You'll die, you'll die, you'll die

there's nothing left

no way to evade your end

But wait, no

I don't want to go

What's the need,

to do this deed?

I want to be warm again,

can't we still bargain?

I'll give all I have

just let me flee

Are there no terms

on which to survive?

Am I to perish

in your kingdom?

Are you truly

without compassion

determined to reap

my withered life?

Buried in snow

I'm facing defeat

I tried

but I died

Mind broken, body dying

nothing left but a failed attempt

no way to hide from the

tormenting breeze

You tried, you tried, you tried

there's nothing left

no way to reason with death

Light gone, hope in vain

everything was for nothing

you shouted your pleas

to non-existing ears

You're dead, you're dead, you're dead

there's nothing left

no way to evade your end

The spark lost, the flame burned out,

nothing left but coldness

no trace of the futile struggle

you tried to uphold

You died, you died, you died

there's nothing left

but a sorry frozen carcass

The will slain, life extinguished

everything set to zero

no breath left

to even utter your final words

You died, you died, you died

there's nothing left

but a sorry blackened corpse