Kristen's Notes

When you fight the darkness

All winter long

It is exhausting

Draining

Absolutely desiccating.

But a winter morning,

Sitting in the dark

With my electric fire

Cup of tea

A warm muffin

And a lit tree

Enjoyed from beneath a faux fir blanket

With calcium eye patches clinging to my cheekbones

Might be my favorite kind of 5am.

Dark, quiet, alone in a world of slumber

Bathed in the flickering light.