Prior to Midnight

by Christine Emmert

Image credit: Guillaume LORAIN on Unsplash

The drip of darkness

against the windowpane

distracts me from slumber.

I would awake your memory further

with the magic of my pen,

but some sleeping is forever

which even the insistent hand of love

cannot shake into narrative to be related.

I found you dressed in words

that clothed the naked soul.

We stripped the words away

revealing naked thought

all too shocking.

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Christine Emmert

Christine Emmert is a writer, actress, director and educator whose work has been read/performed in the USA, UK and Canada. Her latest prose is Dreaming of Storms which can be accessed on Amazon and other book sites She is currently working on a short piece entitled Albatross at Sunset.