Awake To Joy

Emma Prempeh

I wake and first I feel

I feel before sight, before recognition

I feel immense warmth in and on

My body

Now warmer than first lay;

May it be the broken sweat that comes on occasion

May it be a quilt that came from a lover

May it be a fallen breeze?;

My body feels a warmth that has broken barriers and not sweat.

I wake and first I feel warmth loosening the body to enter the spirit

All before sight,

The body, my body, feels

I feel what I will come to see upon a slip of the eye.

The joy of all my worlds

My worries all at once

My unconditional and unwavering

My heart in human form

My love in all its beauty.