3:14 life

there's something about 3:14 life
when your small children breathe by your side
in a dark room
when, you are the only soul on earth awake

to coax the rattling in their lungs quiet
distress of their dreams
asleep by the skin of your light fingers
along the hair of their brows
down the softness of their chins

you feel special magic to heal them
for the time being and also for the times
when their warm bodies are long and you reach
and they reach but do not meet