Ben Hovinga

This is a poem that my girlfriend made and sent me. This happens to her every morning when she walks the dog.

Dancing Leaves
By: Sami Hawkins

There is no light,
As I step outside.
The crisp morning air
Trickles over my skin,
Skips down my throat,
As I inhale deeply.
The remains of sleep,
Are shocked out of my mind,
As the breeze rolls over me,
I walk.

The wind picks up,
it slowly gets colder,
As I walk along the dark
familiar street I hold close to me
the last feeling of warmth from my bed,
from my dreams.

The slight thudding sounds
Of rhythmic steps are overtaken
By the howl of the wind.
One last gust of cool air whips
My hair wildly before it suddenly stops.

The silence is deafening for a moment,
But a whisper of rustling draws me.
It’s a tree, tucked between others of its kind,
Yet towering above the rest.
As I stand below the strange tree
The whispers grow to a roar of dancing leaves
From top to bottom every single leaf skipped, twirled
In the wind that was not there.

How? I’ll never know,
I don’t think I should.
Chilling and unnerving
Yet Wonderful and odd.
knocked by the cold wind
shivers roll over my skin,
a sign to go back,
back to my bed,
back to my dreams of dancing leaves.

Photo by: normalityrelief

So many people that actually know me will know that I have a bad sleep schedule. For the longest time I would not go to bed until 5-6 am and wake up until 2-3 pm. I did not know why I was doing this. I was trying everything to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier and nothing worked. I then figured out that it was caused from sleeping in the basement. I only noticed this after me getting my laptop. Yes my computer saved my life. My brother needed a computer and because I got my laptop I don’t need the old computer and I also don’t need the space of a basement. We both switched rooms so he has the whole basement and I have his old ~100 square foot room.  Because of the big window above my bed the light helps me wake up earlier and also helps give me lots of vitamin D when I’m in my room on the laptop. In the two weeks that I have been in this room I am waking up almost 4 hours earlier and continuing to get up earlier each day. I believe if I had the East facing room I would wake up even earlier without any extra influence because of the sun rise. Now I know my brother will start to go into the same late night routine as me but by the time he needs to get up earlier I will have moved out.