Coming Home to You

Coming Home to You

work feels hard at present
heavy clouds
hang over its nature
i need home life,
‘wife’
cats and home,
i need you to be there,
when the madness
of my working days
dares to pull me away
this form of sanity
is us –
even as we dilly dally
with our own memories
it comes at me,
from all angles
and i contain it –
as i contained –
nightmares and scenes growing up
i learned to shine
when my feet buckled
from trying to toe the line
work bears down,
i need you to come home to

James Garratt – Monday 3rd June 2019