Safety Doors Locked

As I grow older, meanings fade & important

things shrink to insignificance as small things

fill my universe: a neatly made bed - military

style, a shiny kitchen and fresh laundry with

lavender as fabric softener; cinnamon coffee;

a woodpecker’s rolling lilting call in a tree

 

Work assignment completed & crime scene

investigations solved in nail-biting episodes

while munching on green veggies to satisfy

appetite - early mornings of silver sunshine,

colours shimmering within crystal rainbow

prisms - brightening sedate Cognac walls

 

Playing catch with an energetic, high-jumping

dog - lovingly resting at my feet afterwards: I

question nothing; safety doors locked and

burglar bars prevent intrusion of ubiquitous

psychopaths & serial killers, indispensable

for creating entertaining crime stories

 

A cup of strong tea before delighting in triple

caramel ice-cream, hot water bottles to keep

me warm while snugly sitting under a soft

turquoise fleece: this is my Nirvana –

this is what Heaven means to me

 

Lockdown Phase 2, Pretoria, South Africa

FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2020