daily it was - sound from heaven

Alarm goes off and then it always gets snoozed.

10 minutes more. that's what I told myself in a state of 'about to get up, shall I?"

Here it comes again, my personal wake up call - the scream of pupils playing so hard on their 10:30 am break at this elementary school, the backdoor neighbour.

The beautiful sound of youth that lets me dream awake that

there is innocence

there is today

there is tomorrow

there is play

the sick world suddenly seems hopeful and beautiful with their scream.

I feel hopeful.

Like grandpa said to us every time he heard us played and we made loud noise, to him it was "sound from heaven" / "sieng sawun".

I now realized why he was so happy to hear our annoying noise.

It gives an ability to hope that

the innocence still exists

today exists

tomorrow will come

and you can feel young forever.

*inspired by a film "Children of Men". Unstoppable noise of a crying baby, the first baby born in 27 years in the future world, turns out to be the most beautiful sound human beings will have ever heard in the 27 years that we cannot reproduce.

13 October 2007