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The call came just as I was
climbing the stairs to bed.
My brother, a hoarseness in his voice,
telling me that you were gone.
The rattle in your chest
no longer the background music
to his nightly call.
I felt both heavy and light,
like gravity was pulling me upwards for a change.
I thought a million thoughts
and was grounded
by the beeping of the disconnected line.
The 'phone unplugged, I slept all night.
The first night in weeks,
knowing that you were sleeping too. [comments] => 8 [counter] => 240 [topic] => 52 [informant] => debris [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => goodbyepoetry ) Your Poetry Dot Com - First Sleep


First Sleep
Date: Sunday, 5th September 2010 @ 06:15:04 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: debris



The call came just as I was
climbing the stairs to bed.
My brother, a hoarseness in his voice,
telling me that you were gone.
The rattle in your chest
no longer the background music
to his nightly call.
I felt both heavy and light,
like gravity was pulling me upwards for a change.
I thought a million thoughts
and was grounded
by the beeping of the disconnected line.
The 'phone unplugged, I slept all night.
The first night in weeks,
knowing that you were sleeping too.

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