A Walk in the Snow
The wind in January is whipping her face with sharp and heavy snowflakes. Her face swells and hurts like a large scarlet sore. Keeping her head up to accept the coldness and harshness of the January snowstorm, she quietly fastens the string knot of her hat and continues forward to the milky blurry vision ahead.
His voice is still echoing hollowly in her head. The man she met just now for the last time--the man who warmed her red sore hands for the whole winter, and who has made this unbearably grim season the most beautiful, warm, and amazing wonderland--said briefly one word to her on their last meeting. "Goodbye," he waved carelessly and then turned away. She blinked to his back. She was expecting more from him, from this man she loved ever so tenderly for so long. She thought that at least he would wish her good luck, at least he might ask her how she's planned to carry on for the next a few years, at least he would have her in his arms one last time so that she could remember the sweet odour of french vanilla of his skin for the rest of her life, at least... But he didn't even move closer to her, nor did he pay any attention to her expressions. Like a swift wind blowing over the mountain top, there was nothing ever remaining between them. Therefore, all she could do was to silently close her eyes and slip away from this man's life, as a painful and weak leaf brought away from the tree by the invisible strong wind.
The wind is blowing even harder with large sheets of snowflakes mingling and whirling around more desperately. People on the road are heading home as fast as they can, regardless of the mutual connection and subtle intimacy between one another. Streets and the scenery become as lifeless as a pale desert with the piercing wind and snow weaving an enormous isolate chrysalis for the entire lonely world. In front of a straight narrow road, she sees some footsteps that stretch forward overlapping one another like a deep colourless scar in the face of white. She pauses for a moment and chooses another fresh area which is packed completely with thick snow but without any footsteps on it. -- She chooses to blaze her own trail by herself to see the true expression of the snowy road when a fresh footstep is first carved onto it.
The figure of her first love flashes in her head as she's staring at her own footsteps in the snow. She remembers she used to wish that she could step in his footsteps and walk to the end of eternity with him together, hand in hand. She remembers the time when he tenderly kissed her lips in the dark hall way as if kissing an exquisitely crimson wound. She remembers his fingers danced on her skin with the sweet melody of his breath, and the day she threw away all the stuffs related to him when she found out he was just playing around with he. --This is when every trace of this man disappeared completely from her life, and where the thread of memory breaks.
(待续。。。)
The wind in January is whipping her face with sharp and heavy snowflakes. Her face swells and hurts like a large scarlet sore. Keeping her head up to accept the coldness and harshness of the January snowstorm, she quietly fastens the string knot of her hat and continues forward to the milky blurry vision ahead.
His voice is still echoing hollowly in her head. The man she met just now for the last time--the man who warmed her red sore hands for the whole winter, and who has made this unbearably grim season the most beautiful, warm, and amazing wonderland--said briefly one word to her on their last meeting. "Goodbye," he waved carelessly and then turned away. She blinked to his back. She was expecting more from him, from this man she loved ever so tenderly for so long. She thought that at least he would wish her good luck, at least he might ask her how she's planned to carry on for the next a few years, at least he would have her in his arms one last time so that she could remember the sweet odour of french vanilla of his skin for the rest of her life, at least... But he didn't even move closer to her, nor did he pay any attention to her expressions. Like a swift wind blowing over the mountain top, there was nothing ever remaining between them. Therefore, all she could do was to silently close her eyes and slip away from this man's life, as a painful and weak leaf brought away from the tree by the invisible strong wind.
The wind is blowing even harder with large sheets of snowflakes mingling and whirling around more desperately. People on the road are heading home as fast as they can, regardless of the mutual connection and subtle intimacy between one another. Streets and the scenery become as lifeless as a pale desert with the piercing wind and snow weaving an enormous isolate chrysalis for the entire lonely world. In front of a straight narrow road, she sees some footsteps that stretch forward overlapping one another like a deep colourless scar in the face of white. She pauses for a moment and chooses another fresh area which is packed completely with thick snow but without any footsteps on it. -- She chooses to blaze her own trail by herself to see the true expression of the snowy road when a fresh footstep is first carved onto it.
The figure of her first love flashes in her head as she's staring at her own footsteps in the snow. She remembers she used to wish that she could step in his footsteps and walk to the end of eternity with him together, hand in hand. She remembers the time when he tenderly kissed her lips in the dark hall way as if kissing an exquisitely crimson wound. She remembers his fingers danced on her skin with the sweet melody of his breath, and the day she threw away all the stuffs related to him when she found out he was just playing around with he. --This is when every trace of this man disappeared completely from her life, and where the thread of memory breaks.
(待续。。。)









