The Sleep Melody

I closed my door and flopped on my bed and reimagined the way she slept against me.

"I wonder if she is starting to like me or enjoys being my friend?"

I get up from my bed and walk to my closet and grab a pair of boxers and put them on. I go back to my bed and lay down and close my eyes to see only of darkness. It's always been a little hard for me to fall asleep so sometimes I read a book or sing. Yeah I know it sounds weird but singing at night reminds me of when I was younger my mom would sing to me when it was bedtime. I remember how beautiful she used to sound. It was like she was a siren in her past life.

I wished she would sing again but ever since my father/stepfather she never sang again. My real dad left my mom when he found out my mom was pregnant. I never got to know my real dad other than what my mom told me. My mom meet my stepfather when I was five and she was 21. I don't know how they got together because I never asked. After all, she always told me to be grateful for what we have now and never question the gods and their decisions. But I still don't know why she stopped singing after they got together, it just happened out of the blue too.

While thinking about this the only thing that came to mind was my mom's favorite song, she would sing her song to me all the time.

"I don't want to set the world on fire"

"I just want to start"

"A flame in your heart"

"I've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim"

"I just want to be the one you love"

"And with your admission"

"That you'd feel the same"

"I just want to be the one you love"

I honestly hope I sang it loud enough so my mom can hear it from the kitchen. I think it would have been a nice surprise for her to know that I still remember her song. I remember she would call it her sleep melody.