Today, I woke up and blindfolded, still, <br />I could not feel the beating of my pulse. <br />It was very dark yet <br />and only the singing of a solitary <br />bird <br />early bird <br />proved that I was still <br />alive.<br /><br />Lauro Marques<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/winter-awakening/