Frozen in Time

It was a cold day and the sky was dark as night. Silence was settled every where. Not even the sound of the birds could be heard from the far. Only the dripping sound of the melting ice was the broker of the silence barrier. A white layer of mixed ice and salt had covered the streets. Nothing could be seen on the ground, not even the white divider lines of the road. The trees were covered by a layer of ice, an ice blanket in the cold freezing day. For moment I could think that every thing was dead. Suddenly I heard a voice. It was the tree who called me over. The tree asked me to let him loose of the ice blanket. But I was short and the tree tall. The tree said: “I can’t move, I was born to be settled here forever, until I am uprooted. My only joy was to say Hi every morning to the sun and the mother nature. Watch the kids play and the grasses grow. But now I am even more enclosed. This blanket that the cold had put on me has covered my eyes; I can’t see any thing or any body.” I had to leave, so I said: “Don’t worry, when the sun comes out, it will make you free. You will see the kids play and the brightness of the day, and this will happen soon. I walked away, but I knew that it is just the beginning of the cold and the sun will not visit him for a long time.”