Wednesday, 5:30 a.m. - Max Reif

[Lawrence Robinson]

Wednesday, 5:30 a.m.

I kiss my wife 
at the foot of the stairs 
she’s about to ascend
to finish her sleep

and return to my desk 
to continue my morning’s work.
We are making a brave stand.
So are you, I’m certain.
All of us rise and live every day
in a world whose coherence 
feels ever more fraught.

We are, each of us, the locus
of humanity’s forward motion
toward a brighter time, 
even though the sun 
of that future 
has not yet risen.

We’re like the birds 
singing before dawn 
to something they 
can’t yet see.

Day by day, 
we walk
this tightrope.

	- Max Reif
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