Whiskey
Like a vacation
A warmth that I avoid
Feeling stronger in the cold
Like that woman snowbound
In a cave with her infant
In Idaho
Feet frostbitten after a night
While her husband walked to a town
So far way
They were snowbound
In Idaho
Her feet so much in pain
She buried them in snow
She ate skittles & vitamins
Breast fed her child
When her milk ran out
She fed him melted snow
And sugar
Burying her feet in the snow
To numb the pain
The throb
Of dying tissue
Her husband made it to the highway
Crippled
Rescuers found her & the infant
Soon after his directions
To the cave
Happy newspaper pix of their survival
Not showing their now stumped feet
Toes removed due to frostbite
Both
But the infant was saved
All that matters
Seeing that Newspaper image
They were GLAD to give up their toes & feet
To save their boy
Whiskey warmth
Like a vacation
That I am not worthy of
I still have my toes