woke up to the sound of birds again
and soft breathing
and tree muted light
and there it was again.
"name me" it whispered.
but I refused and rolled over.
name yourself I thought.
I had awoken numerous times only to find it
sitting there... waiting.
I resented it.
there has to come a day... when one awakes
and what is there is ready for you...
knows what it is and is able
to tell you with out you having to wonder.
if I name you... then you really do not exist
and I am more alone here than I care to imagine.
the next time I awoke the room was empty.
It had left.
there were no birds or breath or light
and when the filter tore open
and the lens panned out... from the periphery it walked back through the door.
it had come back and placed itself in my hand
and in my hand was the name.
the name that beetles it way through the annals of time
to deliver the final fatal blow I had been waiting for all these years.
o love
my name is no one