at the supermarket
I both have my pound coin
and yet I don't have it
...it's in that slot
on my shopping trolley
A Prisoner - In Ones Own Time
Authorised confinement
at his majesty's pleasure
involuntary restraint
deprivation at leisure
A life-time of crime
top criminal attainment
means liberty deprived
by involuntarily containment
freedom of movement
as a prisoner, restricted
the consequence being
fully self-inflicted
Arrested, charged, found
guilty of a terrible crime
sentenced to contemplation
of why - in ones own time
That is shining now
Searching my memory - did I really do all those things?
Where are all the people I didn't meet
all the things I never saw
the places I never went to
the books I never read
are they on the benches that I walked past
on imaginary seafronts
to sit awhile
tasting the waves that were never there
in the breeze that didn't blow
under the sun that wouldn't shine - the same sun that is shining now
Has it already started
What was I before I was me?
Where was that?
What happened to the time when I was younger - where's all that gone to?
Was I me back then - like I'm me now?
How long is now
what actually happens to it
has now finished
and if it haswhen does later start - is it now
...or now
...or now even?
Maybe it's tomorrow
I'd like to go back to yesterday - I want a second go at it!
I'd like to skip the future
or is it too late?
Maybe the future's already started - if I have one that is!
Might my future die
like I will die
when does all that start - or has it started already?
Rain
Rain - sort yourself out!
we might be waiting for you start
or waiting for you to stop
we either want more of you
or we want less - but you never arrive in the right amount at the right time
you're either too fine - so don't start properly
or you're too heavy and you smash our greenhouse windows
you're wanted over here - but only fall over there
you either fall constantly
or intermittently - and we go out without a coat and get soaked!
you were most definitely forecast - but you don't show
you surprise us on a trip out
or we water our garden because they promised you weren't coming - then you chuck it down!
Rain!
Sort yourself out!
Despite
Despite having to drive sensibly
despite the chattering of the wiper blades
despite the blurry view distorting everything through the cars windows
despite the grey skies and heavy clouds
despite the splash of the wheels through the many puddles
despite the endless miles of heavily soaked gorse
despite the little streams running down the primrose clad lanesand the dark skies hiding the wonderful vistas which you can't quite see
despite the moss covered trees soaked in it
despite the droplets on the surface of puddles distorting reflections
despite the need for a coat at the beach
despite the need to eat your picnic sat inside your car and not on a soft warm rug on the sand
despite the days activities being cancelled
and the swim in the sea being postponed - for today at least...
Never mind
for this is Cornwall - and a drop of rain is what makes it so beautiful!
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