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Secret Hours

from Sisterly by Jean Rohe

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Secret Hours

You waken every morning far too soon
Startling the bed, the dark, the moon
But even so, you bless each dream
that seized your sleep before the closing
Of those secret hours

She rises in the night to soothe her child
Woken by his cries, hungry and wild
She takes him to her breast
and though her eyes are tired she is smiling
Through those secret hours

I fumble in the dark to find a pen
Woken by some strange idea again
And bleary-eyed I take it down
so I won't forget it in the morning

Oh, the dawn,
Opens up our eyes and breaks the spell: the secret's gone

He toils in the darkest hours of night
Never went to bed, had to get it just right
Nobody to spoil those peaceful hours of work
before the dawning
O, those secret hours

Your flight is taking off at six AM
Not a wink of sleep from now till then
I hold you as I try to memorize each line
of our bodies intertwined
I try to steer the path of a star
that brings the morning out from the dark
Try to halt the glow
that's breaking, breaking, breaking through the window

Oh, the dawn
Opens up our eyes and breaks the spell
All those things we thought we knew so well
Eden was the night before they fell
The secret's gone

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from Sisterly, released November 2, 2018

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Jean Rohe Brooklyn, New York

Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider world outside them. She is a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant recipient. Her latest full-length record as a bandleader, "Sisterly," won best Adult Contemporary Album at the Independent Music Awards in 2019. ... more

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