Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Soothing Thoughts

I was all covered up,
and I was sleeping OK,
but I woke up because the comforter knocked over a teacup.
Luckily, my cell phone didn’t get wet.
I had to go to the bathroom to pee anyway.
Then I got covered up
in the comforter again, with a big cat
sleeping by my head.
Hard to get back to sleep.
I lay awake re-thinking dire thoughts.
But it was way too early to get up,
so I just stayed covered up,
feeling the smoothness of my feet
rubbing against each other in the dark,
imagining they were your feet, my buttercup.
So, I drifted off,
and in half an hour I was sleeping like the dead
again, all covered up,
snug as a bee in hyssop.