Dawnings
Look again
By Nicholas Hooper
You don’t know what to expect
Fear takes the lead
Pushing you to anxiety
This will happen, that will happen
But if you look again
You don’t know what will happen
You don’t know how it will feel
You can’t smell the dug up earth
You can’t hear the sounds of machines
You can’t see the looks on faces
So look again and accept
that you have no power
over the
future
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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