Waking beauty <br />~ <br />She lays awake counting time <br />Thoughts soar like birds in the sky <br />She is free and she is beauty <br />The fallen rain saves her thirst <br />Brings to earth a rising bud <br />The flowers of something sewn <br />Begin to flower once more <br />A new beginning arises <br />She lays awake counting time <br />Her brown eyes flicker <br />Wide open to the world <br />The light breaks through window <br />Cast across her face <br />She lays awake counting time <br />As beautiful as the night <br />Those tender lips silent <br />She is as consigned to memory <br />A waking beauty<br /><br />Matthew Holloway<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/waking-beauty/
