Dawnings
I can’t do it
By Nicholas Hooper
I wanted to write something called ‘all that there is’ but it’s too big
Once said, it must apply everywhere and that would take such a long book
that it wouldn’t fit in any library.
Because all that there is must take every person, every being every part of this world
into its story and the breadth of that is too huge to comprehend:
from the poorest to the richest
from the smallest to the largest
from the oldest to the youngest
every experience is unique
but perhaps there is something everything has in common
and that is existence
so is ‘all that there is’ this life, this time, now?
And after that… nothing
So short, so cruel, like the greatest gift snatched away by nature
Or do we all leave something behind and become a vibration
Vibrating like angels on a pinhead?
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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