Songs of Morning by Nick Allison

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Songs of Morning

When I awoke today,

I looked to the east

and there was the sun,

punctual as ever.

I opened the back door,

pleased to hear the birds

singing their songs of morning

into the cool, quiet air.

Breathing in, I feel my lungs

expand, contract. 

Steady,

the beat of my heart,

a small promise of existence.

The world goes on as it does,

unburdened by the weight of our fears,

chirps the chickadee

from her perch in the cedar elm,

high above it all.

© Nick Allison 

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Nick Allison

Nick Allison is a writer based in Austin, Texas. His poems and essays have appeared in HuffPost, The Shore, CounterPunch, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Chaos Section, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere, as well as on his personal site, The Truth About Tigers. He recently edited the anthology Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age (TCS Press, 2025). Social: @nickallison80.bsky.social

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