Bathtime Nuances

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OVERHEARD: 1^st Person: “If climate change is nature getting its own back for all the damage we’ve done, we probably deserve it, but Heaven help us all.”

                           2^nd Person: Nature is no fool nor is God. If we’re being taught a lesson, let’s hope we learn it in good time or it won’t be us having the last laugh...” 

BATHTIME NUANCES 

Lying back in a bath,
engaging with times past,
you-me-us
battling less trouble and strife
and no coronavirus
threatening us at every turn,
our quality of life
a slippery slope for sliding down,
climbing up, falling again 

Engaging with the heat
of a kinder personal space,
you-me-us
dreaming of spreading wings,
visiting such islands
as set apart from worldly ways
while joining up any dots
best placed to keep up appearances
embracing love and kindness 

Bath water cooling down,
time to get busy with the task
of scrubbing clean
a mind-body-spirit disillusioned
by a world anxious
to interpret information data
in such ways as furthering
such political agendas as win elections,
least offend its religions 

A window left partly open
lends me glimpses of a leafy patch
of blue sky under siege
by weepy clouds, till old Apollo
effects a timely rescue
reminding me (as I grab a towel)
of such life and light
as nature duly inspires mind-body-spirit
lest it should ever forget 

Refreshed and ready to take on a new day,
a hopeful heart, come what may 

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