Awaken

This slumber's been long and sweet
Tucked in a blanket of great cowardice
I am just a dreamer behind these linen sheets

Sleep's like opium to my weary bones
Seemingly a mute medicine, a cure
That quietly numbs my senses' moans

In oblivion I taste the honey-heavy dew* of rest
Unaware that in the stillness of my being
I decay and digress

This slumber's been long and sweet
Pressed against a mattress of the mundane
I am just a dreamer whose visions are vain

Please rub the sleep off my eyes
Awaken me to the love which death, it defied
Move my lethargic soul
Make it tremble
Hurl it to a worthy goal

Shake off an accustomed stupor
Stir up my heart
For what it's beating for

Interrupt this aimless dreaming
Greet me with the rousing heat of the sun
Like a new summer morning


*William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Top Ten Reasons Why I Want to Be Like Her.

Aside from the obvious, glaring fact that she's beautiful within and without - everybody already knows that about her - these are my personal reasons why Mummy Ana, my friend and spiritual mentor, is one of the few women I look up to...

1. Because she is teachable and unassuming

2. Because she listens and remembers

3. Because she is smart for her age! haha
4. Because she taught me how to cook baked mussels
5. Because I can call her in the middle of the night just to whine about my ex
6. Because she always asks about my love life *giggles*
7. Because she knows how to have fun
8. Because she gives me the kind of trinkets I'd wear ;-)
9. Because her love for God is infectious
10. Because she still appreciates the little, simple things in life.

Happy birthday, Mummy A!