Just because.....


....the bell chimes once more

just before the crest of the sun

5:30 blinks red-shatters the silence
of sunrise

I sit and stare
at the shifting light

clouds interrupt my thoughts
as they interrupt the fall of rays
to cold earth

just for a second-
a blink- I thought I saw heaven

a blue bird speed past
my bedroom window

but, as my eyes adjusted,

silence took hold once more

perhaps, now...

I can sleep