To read a book
to sit dead quiet
to study people’s state.
To sip a drink
or write a line
you cannot overrate. To have a crisp
without the cries
that others want one to
to sit and think
without demands
is what I wish to do.To bask in peace
to view a scene
to pen a tardy note.
To feel grown up
to be a ‘me’;
I sit quite smug and gloat.To have all this
for one day – two,
soak up this precious time.
Then back to ‘mum’
and ‘wife’ and roles;
farewell to ‘me’ and ‘mine’.
© Nicky Clifford 2016
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