Nocturnal Disturbance

It’s not those things that go bump in the night.
It’s not the boogey man, hiding behind a child’s closet door or underneath the bed.
It’s not that weird unexpected noise that causes your ears to perk up and your body to tense.
It’s not the cries, deep sighs or irregular breaths from another, lying not so peacefully beside you.
It’s not the child you put to bed hours ago who now wants to sleep next to you…..where it’s safe.
It’s not the whistling of a mighty wind or the clap of thunder striking too close to where your heart lives.
It’s not that flash in the pan, too bright to see, blast of light from the lightening fingers in the sky.
It’s not the request of a cherished lover to move closer for additional comfort.
It is not…….

It is, however, that something that gives you great pause even in the middle of an entrancing dream sequence.
It is that something that makes you ponder even in unconscious thought.
It is that something that no matter how tired you are and how deeply you think you are sleeping, forces a sleepy eye, a sleepy conscious to awaken….
even if it is only for the briefest moment.
It Is that something you remember momentarily, and not as a passing fancy.
It is what needs to be attended to immediately, written down if only scribbled in the dark for fear that failure to act most expeditiously may cause this precious something to dissipate like so many other somethings before.
It is that something that in that one instance is the most powerful something that requires your immediate, undivided, unwavering attention.
Right now attention!!!!
It is a whisper from the Most High directing your feet, reminding you of your purpose, implanting a powerful thought…. Not prophesied by others but spoken in a sweet melodic and rhythmic way, with perfect pitch and timbre;
for your ears only…..directly to you and for you.
It is nocturnal disturbance.