Dawnings
Coming home
By Nicholas Hooper
After a time of immense healing
With people of wide talents
From a place of care and love
Leaving those faces that smile at little successes
And frown in careful ways
at screens, at wounds, at sounds
Leaving those names that know each day
of lifegiving happiness and life-leaving sadness
And coming home to a place of rest
Where you are known and loved
You will miss those people
who looked after you
and who somewhere inside
will be your friends forever
But you are home now
and life can start again.
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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