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Five in the Morning
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Five in the Morning |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas 
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Five in the Morning Silence. Sudden intense awareness of every unheard sound. Silence so loud I ache with the listening. Every minute vibration – heard. Alarm synapses poised, ready to fire. I’m awake – 2:22 a.m.. Did I hear something? A noise I shouldn’t have heard? Something unusual in the middle of the night that triggered an internal alarm - something bringing me instantly to full, alert, consciousness – listening, to silence so heavy even breathing is all but crushed by it’s weight. When I awake in the middle of the night, for whatever unfathomable reason, watching you sleep, a misnomer since I can’t see you in the dark, turns me into a raging, lustful beast with an unquenchable hunger, because if I awake you at this time of night, you’re going to hurt me. But in the silence, in the dark, I know you’re there, just beyond sight, and my body warms, burns, yearning for full length, unclothed flesh to flesh – contact. I love you then, more than I’ve ever loved anyone – or anything, awake or asleep, in this or any other, life. . . but I know you’re going to hurt me – bad, if I let my love awake you at 2:22a.m.. So I lay there yearning, listening to the silence that awoke me, to whatever brought me to full, alert, consciousness, until finally, unknowingly, I fall to sleep, again . . . dreamless, deep, Sleep, just moments, ungodly short, moments, before the nerve-rending, blasting, silence busting alarm clock screams - Hey! It’s five-o’clock in the morning - Time to wake up! © w. james beard, jr. january 2007 |
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Roniece Dawson-Bruce Member Ascendant
since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689Sydney, Australia |
Hello James, loved this write of yours!! and funny but I was awake early this morning at 2.35am!! just missed you!!  RDB |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
"because if I awake you at this time of night, you’re going to hurt me." I laughed when I read that...it's true though, you are awake and the other is still in this deep sleep and if you wake them up for that, you are toast....  enjoyed this! |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
1derful Poet, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Great write Jimmy! Much enjoyed. hugs, Chris Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
This made me smile Jimmy. Nicely penned. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
A lustful interlude in the middle of the night sounds good to me! In the middle of last night I was sipping tea and eating a piece of Melba toast!  Enjoyed the read, Jim!  Warm hug 'n smile, Linda |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
I DO love this! made me laugh! can't wake me in the middle of the night for love nor money not that anyone's ever tried money... |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Even when one sleeps alone? These very images are shared... and shared very well. The curious thing is... do you always wake on those numbered alignments as well? 2:22 3:33 4:44.... I do...and it is THAT that makes me wonder, WHAT?   Thanks, Jimmy! |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Maybe you could talk about it before hand and it might be a possible...James |
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