Dawnings
lost cause
By Nicholas Hooper
they said it was a lost cause –
that love could be most powerful
and come to take over the world
and could rest in our hearts
in the figure of a person
or a sense of the other
or that feeling of something else
but if that is a lost cause
then I would fight its corner
to let people know that a real smile
means more than an angry gesture
and that being close in love
is worth more than any money
or any power
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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