If I have told you once
I have told you 106
times.
Here,
Look at this detail,
It is significant!
relevant!
שים לב
Point your heart here.
…I know you laugh,
You and your crew;
Mocking my attention to
detail,
My scrupulousness,
The meticulous
aspect of my everyday
Life.
I am the microcosm
Without which
Nothing would happen;
I am the alpha
and
omega.
Without me
time stands
still.
Empty your pockets,
Display
Yr crooked fingernails.
Come clean
Today
& tomorrow.
They say
I am a
Fool.
Transparent;
A sagging butterfly,
leftover moth;
hobbled daddy-long-legs.
Seek not for you will not,
Kind of thing.
Over here,
Under this rock,
Behind this
Table.
I am getting angry now.
You shouldn’t
have.
If you fail to
prepare
you prepare to fail.
Loose lips
Sink
Ships
Cliched
Nuance.
Life is indeed a jigsaw
of infinite
complexity.
With ever changing pieces,
Squiggles
of here and there and who knows what.
I became a vegetarian
On my eighth birthday
A vegan on my ninth.
And now
I am left with
An empty nest.
My pockets are
empty;
forgotten.
My heart
is broken;
disconsolate.
Imagine you were able to manipulate
time and space,
forwards
and back.
Imagine reality was
malleable.
I am the interminable
Spark.
The rainbow
Evanescence.
Baobab
Imagining.
Tranquilisation.
Forgetful.
Fatigue.
Mis-remembered whisper.
Shadow.
Soliloquy.
Take your dog for a short walk, come back for a whisky and hot milk, sleep in the company of quiet music, (throw a few plates at the wall?), and wake to a new ‘now’.
After walking along the deep dark ocean floor, the ground will rise beneath your feet and bring you to the fresh air, and the rainbow.
Assuming your hand isn’t damaged too as you typed a humdinger – will save for rereading when ‘crochety’!
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