Winter in Siberia

Imprisoned for the crime of Mania,

For the wildfires and hurricanes 

I set in motion and rode upon,

Retributive justice is served.

I must now spend winter in Siberia,

For an indeterminate sentence,

The sole and lone inhabitant 

Of a penal colony, 

Carved out in the abyss, 

Where the sun never rises.

My thoughts are my inmates,

My restless tormentors,

I am bound and chained 

But they are not.

They crowd the room of my mind

Like sardines in blackwater,

The cold burns and scathes,

I am frostbitten and pneumonic

Above and below the skin,

This winter will not end in spring.


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