Empty Nest

Our children left the nest long ago… It's amazing how fast the years have gone by but I don't feel our nest has ever been empty… and here's my simple reason why: I've always risen early…before the alarm starts beeping before the sun pokes through the window… while my family was still sleeping. It's a wonderful time…the morning… because as the day rubs the night from its eyes…it seems sitting alone…in the solitude…I could hear my family's dreams. Today I still wake early (Old habits are hard to break) And though I no longer hear them dreaming… as a walk through the house I make I find the house is anything but quiet… for on mornings such as these the dreams that I once listened to… have been replaced with memories. It's a wonderful thing…the morning because as the day rubs the night from its eyes You never know what memory will rise up and come floating by… And so I know this nest will never be empty… no matter what time or what year… because a nest can never be empty as long as their memories still live here.