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Friday, August 25, 2017

Waking at Two A.M.

"All i want to do is go to sleep,"
my heart said,
having been hurt beyond
how much one heart can bear.

But then, you came,
tapping on my window
at two a.m.,
and you woke me,
woke me,
from my long sleep.


For Rommy's prompt at Real Toads.

I took the seventh sentence on page thirteen of the book Peaceful Passages, a Hospice Nurse's Stories of Dying Well, by Janet Wehr, which was "All I want to do is go to sleep."


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18 comments:

  1. coffeecatspoetryAugust 25, 2017 at 12:08 PM

    This is so simple and lovely, a time to sleep/heal and a time to love again :-)

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  2. SusanAugust 25, 2017 at 1:05 PM

    Ah! Sleeping Beauty ....

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  3. RommyAugust 25, 2017 at 1:33 PM

    Oh! You've told such a pretty story in those few words. <3

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  4. brudbergAugust 25, 2017 at 1:39 PM

    Love how the story turned... We are always ready to forgive I think.

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  5. Carrie Van HornAugust 25, 2017 at 1:47 PM

    Sometimes love is the only thing that can waken our heart....this is lovely Sherry!

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  6. tonispencerAugust 25, 2017 at 2:04 PM

    Oh my Sherry. this brought to mind the many times my mother would say, just let me sleep...I would sit by her bed watching her sleep and praying she would not wake up. This brought tears.

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  7. Debi SwimAugust 25, 2017 at 2:22 PM

    There is a time for everything... even for mourning to end and love to begin again. I imagine this is about a beloved dog and a stray. I hope so. It would warm my heart.

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  8. AnonymousAugust 25, 2017 at 6:15 PM

    Whatever it was at "the window", the feel of this poem changed.

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  9. Rosemary Nissen-WadeAugust 25, 2017 at 6:48 PM

    Delectable! There's so much in the unsaid; it's perfectly done.

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  10. Kim M. RussellAugust 25, 2017 at 11:10 PM

    Turned on a sixpence - so poignant and lovely!

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  11. Old EggAugust 26, 2017 at 12:06 AM

    Two things are here; a pause for rest and forgiveness, where both see that it is not over tthey both still care.

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  12. Marcoantonio Arellano (Nene)August 26, 2017 at 3:24 AM

    lovely as expected mi amiga

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  13. Dr. Vandana SharmaAugust 26, 2017 at 6:52 AM

    To get a peaceful death is indeed a blessing.

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  14. AngieAugust 26, 2017 at 7:32 AM

    a soft rap-tap-tapping of a poem

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  15. HelenAugust 26, 2017 at 3:48 PM

    As always, you touched my heart.

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  16. colleenAugust 27, 2017 at 8:22 PM

    Animal, mineral, vegetable or human? I'm guessing the first.

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  17. EllaAugust 29, 2017 at 9:29 AM

    I love the tapping~ The softness of spiritual gifts lingers with this one!

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  18. Lillian Susan ThomasSeptember 1, 2017 at 1:16 AM

    really nice poem. I've missed you.
    I'm finally writing again. Mostly right now I just want to reconnect with everyone and read some of your poems.

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