The shades are drawn tightly down.

Dare I draw one up?

And view outside what is in store.

Has the world changed overnight?

Or will it be as I remember it,

when darkness fell.

Yes raise a blind and let the sunlight in.

Balance the quietude with some fresh new noise.

Adjust those eyes and brain and think;

Can I turn up the volume a little more?

Yes raise another and another yet and flood the room with energy,

until blaring it overwhelms my senses and I forget,

the moment when I decided to wake up.