~
Awake! at 3:30
it’s way much too early
for a still world outside,
dark and plain.
I look out my window
and every tenth window,
one out of ten,
is the same.
A face at each window,
checking the windows
of others, to see
who’s germane.
We wave to each other,
return to our covers,
to arise in the later
A.M.
And then at 4:30,
when it’s ‘still’ pretty early,
ten other
wakeful
do the same.
~
©2013, Marvin Loyd Welborn
[Revised 22 April 2013; 26 February 2014]
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 
What a thought in creativity !
Wow.
Sumita
intriguing…all the faces in the windows looking out to see who is insane…the wave…the check back every hour…nice write sir…
Ah, Insomnia – I know it well… 🙂
ha nice..i like the waving, the connecting with those that can’t sleep as well.. at least you know you are not alone..a good feeling after all…smiles
That every hour waking up and checking out the window is insane ~
Grace
I used to feel like I was the only one up in the middle of the night when I was nursing my babies. It’s a sobering feeling.
4:30 is a bit early to be looking out of the window. But I know insomnia isn’t easy to deal with.
love the form of this. love the rhythm and the style of the rhyme. beautiful.
waving back =)