She said,
six?
I heard what I heard.

need my hearing adjusting
my eyesight too
but this is what getting older
does to me and you.

It isn't easy
to navigate from that
sleeping to the waking state
sometimes
you do not want to open
your eyes
and see what the day has
in store
sometimes
you just want
to sleep a bit more.

******
we are creatures of habit
alarm clocks we turn off
things that we cross off
lists
that we make,

the sleeping state.

Yeah, he shouted as today trailed away into a distant future, which, as you all know, is far enough away from Friday to make you cry.

but yeah for any day I wake up,
yes
waking is a victory
and history will mention me
as a victor

someone shouts
yeah!
as a Victor Meldrew

ha
little *******.

to when we all thought
that this life
was infinite

Lots of pain, he said,
I'm in lots of pain
I looked at him
and said
say that again,

pain
what does it mean?
was it
written into our biology
and brought into the
scheme of things?
is it what heartbreak brings?

I know that he'll never know
but I do.

Sunday night and the air is blue
cigarette smoke emanating from you
curling into a darkening sky
no wonder now
that you don't wonder why

but I do.

You look but don't see
that
the universe
and we
are one.

We're not getting there
because we're not going.

someone decides
no free rides
pay
or you get no say.

and we're stuck here in the mud
someone else shouts out good
I like mud

well
so did I
when I was five

grow up.