Awakening
It isn’t the truck grinding out disdain
in the morning’s half-light alley
or the backdoor cricket scratching a limb
that unhinges me from my dreams.
Percussions of the night
find their rightful place in dreams
shaking chains from the other side
like the unrequited Marley.
The trespass that jogs me up
is a welcome footfall that slips between us
smooth as paper under Christmas ribbon
and a precious limb sure to push against my ribs
nudging into my soul
to let me know
that even in the deepest reverie
or across the widest Lethe
Wherever I step, he will follow.
About this poem
Regarding my 3-year-old son when he would sleepwalk into our bedroom to slip in and dream between us.
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Written on September 20, 2020
Submitted by richardkurtz on June 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXB XBXA XXXX XCAX C |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 122 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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