About this blog

In Toronto, there is a nightly news magazine called T.O. Night aimed at the commuter crowd. One of the
features that it contains is a section called Shout Out where readers can send a short message, rant, note...
to someone, or to anyone...

I started sending Shout Outs to the woman that I am in love with. Not all of them are published in
T.O. Night - and once the magazine is tossed, so too is the shout out...

Here are most of the shout outs that I have submitted - and some of my other writings to
The Lady on the Train...




Friday, 30 January 2015

Sleep and Waking...

Angel,


I lay in bed at night and imagine you in yours. I imagine your head cradled in the crook of your arm, wild curls all asplay, the sound of your breathing and your scent filling the room.


I wonder if you will drift and sleep and dreams will come easily, stealing in silent as mist to transport you to other worlds. I wonder if it will be a night where sleep is evasive and you toss, wrestling with your thoughts and the sheets, the night stretching out long before you.


I lay thinking about the morning and how you will wake... a change in breath and the fluttering of eyelids - a sigh and a turning cat like stretch. I wonder if you long to sink yourself further under the covers and to drift just a little longer.


I wonder what it would be like to be beside you... would I bring you comfort and happiness... to hear your breathing and feel the weight of you in the bed... to be filled by your scent and the press of your back to my chest... to hold magic in the early morning of a dark bed...


I imagine waking up beside you and know what a piece of heaven must be like...


The Man in the Station