Little Boat

I slept.

Had a vivid dream

in which

I made a little boat.

Working

crisp white paper sheets

folded

my hands, I crafted

from scratch

no plans - I started

to make

this boat I would sail

across

tranquil waters - so

I launched

with great hope - I wished

passage

'cross boundless oceans

deep - through 

vast seas - dangerous

tossed - yet

I, warm - safe inside

sailing

me on - homeward bound

into

strong - the harbours walls

moored, snug

safe - in time to wake

once more

Shrodingers Pound Coin

Shrodingers pound coin 

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 has

when 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!

You're either expected - or you're not

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!