i have found that if you lie quietly, people soon forget that you exist

[xcherryjonesx]

it was a time when i could wait alone beyond the snow houses and listen to the stars murmuring their songs down to me, and i could sometimes feel the snow tremble beneath my feet as the hidden creatures shifted up their tunnels beneath the earth. at the moment i seemed to be part of the earth and a part of the sky and it did not matter that my legs were twisted. i dreamed sometimes that i could see my soul flying over everything, mirrored in a hundred lakes, and my soul was not at all like me, not ME. it was like some swift gorgeous bird with countless wings and many flashing colours.
alone i stayed outside peering upward into the darkness of the night. countless stars flashed their icy messages down to me. my eyes watched the cold face of the moon cast its ghostly glow over the frozen bay across the wind-swept mountains and out over the white vastness of the inland plain. yet i believed that in all its shining length the moons beam touched not one other human eye, so wild and lonely is our homeland