By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 26 August 2000

Early Saturday Morning

it's 5:30 a.m.
the alarm will go off in another hour
and you'll find these poems I have written
while you slept

the bad dreams still come
maybe they will always come
but when I wake up from them
I reach for your hand
and in your sleep
you squeeze away
the fear...

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