Wake Up Call

With the intent of ignoring the deep winter I sent my heart into hibernation To sleep long and hard With only the warmth of stored belly fat Protecting me True it was a brutal season True I laid long beneath the drifting snow Dreaming of the climbing summer sun The happy handed waves of strangers The kiss of morning dew I grew tired of the rest and grew restless Cramped and curled in a ball of caverned indifference I longed to stretch from the confines Of my fetal position stay away slumber Open myself the warm up of the world outside my den