Highrise – Written March 2025 (Aged 50)

The challenge, the new challenge,
it does excite me.

And the lifting of barriers and weights,
it is enticing.

But I am tired.
I’m so very tired.
Mentally exhausted.

People’s lack of regulation
goes right through me
and is always caustic.
Abrasive to the extreme.

Of course, I know
people are just people.

But characters can be so defined
by certain cultures.

And it doesn’t have to be
pots of poison,
above which are circling vultures.

But what I know, what I know,
just me,
seemingly not so full of surprise.

Everything I think of these days
clambers up
and then feels so high-rise.

James Garratt – August 2025

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