Anticipation 'Just Facing some Finer Day'

(With thanks to Carly Simon)

It gets more difficult for me to concentrate
too many concepts, too many concerns, too many knives to juggle.

I want to spend some time without mindful thought
nothing to decide beyond which book to read, 

or what to have for tea.

I want sentience to be less an encumbrance and more of a gift;
time to be embraced, not an endurance marathon.

I want to choose my expenditures with determination and joy
not with caution and dread.

I want to sleep until I wake, relish each moment;
exuberantly alive ‘til I rest.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak 
© 8 February 2016