on a break

we threw chunks of snow at one another. screaming. laughing. playing at full tilt. spied the parking lot sparkling under the night sky – the buzz of the lamp lights – the lure of an unbroken landscape. sailed across the icy surface. fast and dangerous. we ran. and i felt life come in like an inhalation after holding my breath for far too long. every footstep a disregard to gravity – to control. and in that short span – those seconds of abandon, i wasn’t afraid of falling. of getting broken on the way down. chased after it. mouth and eyes wide open. without useless words in the way. ready at any moment to let everything go straight head over heels.