Familiarity

I emerge out of a dull dark quiet time, seeing the words waiting patiently to be awoken. I watch them uncoil themselves and stretch out their syllables ready for me.

We have been apart too long and they are nervous, wondering what will have changed between us. We are no longer scared of each other, though, not these days. We have grown familiar with each other, learnt each other’s strange ways.

We will grow together again as the days pass, our mutual wariness and nervousness will fade as the night fades away at the dawn.

Together we will go on out into the new day.