Birds in the Dawn
This morning was very spiritual. I went to bed around 2AM and had trouble falling asleep. So instead of trying to force myself to sleep. I just laid there and relaxed. Hours passed by. Time felt very fluid as if it was recoiling back on itself. Thoughts raced through my mind, and after a while they calmed down. Then at around 4 AM, out of the stillness of the dawn, emerged a few sounds of ocean birds in the distance. I removed my eye mask and looked out the window. There was the warmth of light glowing through the darkness. My whole body began to awaken with the day. Then I could hear the distant swells of the ocean. The crashing noise of waves smashing into waves. It was soothing white noise that seemed to meld with the sounds of the occasional car driving by, swirling the air in their wake. The morning made me remember that I am part of the living creature that is our world. I felt rooted and blooming like a dew speckled flower, yearning for the mist.
After a while I was able to fall back to sleep and didn’t wake up again till about 7:15 AM. I took the dog for a walk and felt more awake then I have been in ages. The air felt crisp. The feeling of the leash was firmly in my grasp. It was as if awakening with the sun itself was more energizing than if I was able to sleep for multiple hours. It was an invigoration that stayed with me even to this very moment.
This experience reminds me of when I was about five years old and my family and I were going on a trip to Hawaii. It was very early in the morning in Irvine at the time. And my father and I were outside of the house and he said to me that I should look up at the stars in the sky. He pointed out the North Star to me. It was shining so bright. I can still remember the stillness of the morning. It is amazing how the whole world slows down at that time. You can hear so far into the distance because of the lack of movement in the surroundings. Waves of sound aren’t contradicting each other like they do during busy afternoon hours.
As the day becomes the moonlight,
And the water crashes down,
The dawn will break,
The sky will make,
A castle made of clouds.
-Tyler