Before I Wake Her Up
written by: Andrea Damic
@DamicAndrea
before i wake her up, i look at her sleep
her peaceful face framed by chestnut brown curls
her lips, slightly parted make tiny snort noises
i get the urge to squeeze her minuscule concave nose, or
just to kiss it, hard to decide which
my five-minute ritual before i wake her up, to
see those beautiful big eyes smiling back at me, eyes
of innocence that only children have
i hope that they’ll never know of pain and hardship, and
i realize these are wishful thoughts, yet i cling to them
as a mother i’m entitled to dream up a better world for my child
***
before i wake her up
Andrea Damic, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She's an amateur photographer and author of fiction and poetry. She writes at night when everyone is asleep; when she lacks words to express herself, she uses photography to speak for her. Her literary art appears in Spillwords, Door Is A Jar, The Dribble Drabble Review, Five on the Fifth, Roi Fainéant Press, Your Impossible Voice, The Elpis Letters, and elsewhere. She spends many an hour fiddling around with her website 'Words and Art' on WordPress.
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