Dawnings
Waiting
By Nicholas Hooper
It’s been a long time
You wonder when you started
Waiting
Thoughts come and go
Thoughts of trouble and success
Waiting
Time seems to slide sideways
like a clock that makes no sense
Waiting
And all along you feel helpless
in the hands of others
Waiting
But it will come to an end,
this powerlessness, as you stop
Waiting
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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