Anoesis

5 am 

The city sleeps 

As an engine hums 

A car door slams 

The leaves quivering 

Silently 

Waiting 

For a gust of breeze 

The stillness belies 

The restlessness 

That lies 

Within the breast 
Of this beast 

That murmurs and snores 

Unrest quivering 

From each of it's pores 

From within the ooze 

That this city excretes 

Furry noses emerge 

In search of cheese 

Of rotting delicacies 

To fill their little souls 

Their stomach's little bowls 

Of hopefulness 

That go begging in the streets 

We walked those streets last night 

A friend and I 

Words soaking up the miles 

Philosophies exchanged over smiles 

The throb of things unspoken 

Beating beneath our lives 

In the unrest we find 

The moonlight mingles 

With artificial yellow bands 

The breeze stirs the sands 

The waves stir the leaves 

That hang below street lamps 

A shiver up our cheeks 

A runnel of sweat seeks 

A goosebump down my spine 

Tracing a naughty line 

From nerve-endings to my mind 

Senses in harmony 

Our 5 am symphony 

Completes...