Frozen Lake

Clear blue water

4 bodies floating

Fully clothed.

I touch the face of the body next to me,

Dead.

Drowned.

His lips were turning blue.

Glancing up, thick ice overhead.

I could make out the time,

It was daylight. Foggy cloudy.

I hear a voice.

“What do you see?”

-Bodies, dead. They drowned trying to find the opening.

“There is nothing you can do, you must find the opening before the ice cracks!”

Frantically swimming near the ice

No opening.

The inevitable happens: the ice breaks.

Darkness.

It was only a dream, or was it?