{"id":800,"date":"2025-05-28T18:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msbrazelton.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=800"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:27:07","slug":"i-want-to-be-cuddled","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brazeltoninstitute.childrenshospital.org\/es\/nbi-community\/poetry-and-practice\/i-want-to-be-cuddled\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want To Be Cuddled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reflection by Niels Warren<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are two poems. The first was written early one morning in June 1996 when I was age 55. Like other stuff that I have written \u2013 such as the second poem which appears below – it started slowly in the darkness, silent and isolated, probably feeling sorry for myself. But \u201call of humanity\u201d got my imagination going – easy to think of settings at the crack of dawn. Then, beautifully, as daylight came I glanced through the window and saw a tree that needed me! What is grace? I asked. Grace is revealed to us. It was the \u201cA-ha\u201d moment of awareness of that tree that led me into the new day. It was a moment where I found direction and peace of mind in meeting a tree. That\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Want To Be Cuddled<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By Niels Warren<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a cold, dark morning,
and I want to be cuddled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clock struck five as I lay there
wanting to be cuddled;
      neck aching, as it always does
      at the beginning of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of humanity wakes up
wanting to be cuddled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My heart goes out to those who can\u2019t be,
wanting to be cuddled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old and cold in the nursing home,
wanting to be cuddled:
      lonely body longing
      now, this morning,
      for a cuddle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiny tots on smelly sheets
wanting to be cuddled:
      whimpering in the dark
      right now, rocking to and fro,
      begging to be cuddled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men and boys are waking now,
pre-dawn, and months since passion passed:
      remanded, barred and guarded,
      praying, crying, cursing.
      Just wanting to be cuddled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clock struck six a moment ago:
six chimes for loved ones lost;
six chimes to stir the memory. . . .
six chimes. . . . the hope?
six chimes. . . . the miracle?
six chimes. . . . just one more cuddle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cuddle, a cuddle,
I\u2019m desperate for a cuddle.
Turn off the light,
and give me back the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sky is streaking grey.
Magnificent: a brand new day.
But nature has no sentiment
to warm me on my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now seven has gone; it\u2019s quarter past,
and time to make some tea.
The day is really here now.
Outside I see a tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twisted, bony, broken
unlovely little tree,
must you grow up ugly,
or become cuddlable
by me?
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Scene<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By Niels Warren<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My scene has been pretty windswept,
battered and, I think, broken in parts
over the past few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My scene confronts me all the time,
and I must try to deal with it while
the wind is still blowing –
lots of loose iron flapping and banging,
lots of debris in the air still.                <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I’m a pretty absent minded,
dependent sort of person, so that
half the time I can’t even lay
my hands on a hammer and a tin of nails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t control the wind,
but I can sharpen my wits
to remember where the hammer and nails are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wind may even help me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n
\"Niels<\/figure>
\n

Niels Warren is an Australian architect, now retired, a sailor, grandfather and thinker these days about the world and the US in particular.  His wife, Beulah has been NBAS Australia trainer for over four decades.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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