Awake

I live
Life knowing
Life changes
With the wind

And this knowing

Stops my breath
Leaves me cold

But I am not afraid

I am awake

I know now

Full well
What life
Can hold

Know it can go
To places
I shudder
To remember

And to places

Far worse
That I haven’t
Yet been

I go where life goes

On the wind

Into the fire
Awake now

And no longer

Surprised