Adrianna L Melton

Cold & Alone

The blood dripped down to my boots and the cold started to sink in, as I lay in it's icy embrace I thought to myself; "This can't be it, I have to survive, I have to make it home to my beautiful Amber and sweet little Gracie." I crawled in the dirt field grasping at the dead earth, a voice echoed in my ears like the sound of faint wind chimes, "Reigns I got you brother stay with me now. You're gonna make it home to your wife and little girl." I look up with my glazing heavy eyes to a silhouette of my brother in arms but his face... was... not him. Eyes as black as night peered into my soul and the feeling of emptiness surrounded me as I fought to fill my lungs with air, claws and a foggy darkness pulled me through the blood soaked dirt. As I struggle helplessly trying to break free, I see Amber in the distance and she slowly turns her back on me taking my daughter with her. I cried out for Gracie as she disappeared into the fog and darkness.