the event starts at 10:30
and I’m ready to go to bed.
heck, I know I’m like an old granny
but that’s my bedtime now– 10:30
9:30
not later than 11:30
and I’ll sleep as long as sleep lets me
10 hours, 12, 13
either that or I won’t sleep well at all
fitful nights and too early mornings.
you were always the early bird.
I was always the night owl.
I miss how we used to make
compromises for each other
you more than I.
I’m not the kid who could stay up
all night lying in the grass
looking up at the stars
talking to you.
if you were here, I could do it again.
on my own I only want to do
the living that happens in my dreams
where no one tells me things are
impossible.
but if you called me up tonight
asked me to come out on that green
I’d do it. no questions. no answers.
just the two of us
and the sky.