Dawnings
A good start
By Nicholas Hooper
Sometimes mornings are darker
the gloom of collected fears and angers
pile in to trip you up on a no-star dawn
darkness fills your mind
and the wrong things come your way
Not all stories are helpful
and out there are many tales of fear
of no way out, of unexpected evil
then all is not light
all is not hope, all is not love
But remember, remember the time
when someone opened your eyes and said
‘all is well, there is that within you
that can rise above your waking gloom
and find that light that you thought you’d lost’
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper