Night Thoughts

NIGHT THOUGHTS

Such plans I have as I lie in bed!

They swarm and buzz inside my head.

All seem exciting and easy to do –

It’d be such fun to learn something new!

I’ll learn to speak German and visit Berlin;

I’ll go on a diet and be really thin;

I’ll finish that novel begun long ago,

Then there are so many things I’d love to sew.

The clarinet would be nice to play,

And perhaps I won’t give my guitar away.

I’ll go to art classes and paint really well -

Would I want to part with those I might sell?

Then there’s yoga and dancing and gentle gym -

I can imagine myself so fit and slim.

Finally I fall into troubled dreams

And when I awake how unreal it all seems!

I get caught up again in the daily routine

And the day is like they’ve always been.

I watch TV then read in bed

And thoughts start whirling in my head:

What if … ?