Quintuplet

Another day breaks
God's pulse beats
this day looks....
ashen, frostbitten morning
blue gold sky
white cloaked and snow quilted
or gauzy mist?
the day waits to show itself
waits for me to come walking

I, reluctant
fight back the haze
night's hold
still drugged by dreams
not recalled
and the vapors
of my neurochemistry
looking
through eyes emergent

My bed
seduces me
holds me warm
deep blue folds
plush
steeped with cinnamon oil
infused within the pillow
for a lover not yet here

If she were here
I would turn
to softly kiss her shoulder
tease her nape
with the brush of my lips
or I would simply lay a while
warm in the naked hold
of sleeping lovers' limbs
She waits though
like this day
a thing yet to be

But this day...
the sounds of earlier risers
living busy
crunching tires
thumping doors
a million beating hearts
precede me
so I'll leave the sultry pleasure of my bed
take the stage
enjoin the crowd
with no lover here
to keep me lingering
I peel back the sheets
and rise

Poem:  'Quintuplet' & Song 'Simple/Sleepless'
©1999 Steven M. Nelson
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