Hours Beyond Midnight - A Reflection...
02.25am Silence from the farthest point
audible in its intensity
a moment of realignment
a solitary voice stutters
and falls silent
04.25am a hint of a breeze
born in an icy scream
freezes the stars
in the pre-dawn sky
04.42am silence
insect
bird
and myself
pull toward the warmth
of our survival
04.47am the silence is broken
by the breeze
whispering to the palms
a chill voice
telling of the dawn
04.55am a leopard coughs
shattering the sky
[into fragments]
05.06am a lion roars
beyond the dark
beyond the chill
and is quiet
imagined
was it a rumour
quiet
except for the breeze
blowing into the mind
by Leigh Kemp