Are You Awake Yet? Poem by Charlotte Gunther

Are you awake yet — really awake?
In your spirit, I mean.

Is there a light — do you see a light?
Perhaps over there, a gleam

Let your eyes be ope, there really is hope.
See over there, a beam.

Don’t look at dark things — phantom no-things
They’re not what they seem.

Be done with your nap — let your mind wrap
Around life and colorful dreams

Awaken your soul — get up from the hole
Where vacant misery screams