Life is for Living (for Daw)

[grannyjill]

Comments welcome from others as well as Daw, of course.

'Life is for living'
But, what does that mean?
I wake up.
Clean my teeth and shower.
Have coffee and toast.
Feed the cat.
Get the car out
Drive to work
Shift paper about
Drive home
Have my tea
Watch the telly
Then bed
when.......
Great ideas swim around in my head.
Thoughts hitherto unknown to mankind,
guaranteed to make the world blow its mind.
Bursts of enthusiasm,
drive and tenacity
producing startling blue-prints of insight and clarity.
I advise the Almighty
Solve age-old problems of diseases and poverty
Write poetry that international sages accept
and a Nobel peace-winning novel (of breath-taking depth)
Then I wake up.
Clean my teeth and shower.
Have coffee and toast.
Feed the cat.
Get the car out.
Drive to work............

..............this was written 10 years ago...as a retired person now I'm FREE...and I'm working on the 'write poetry that international sages accept' but am prepared to forgo the remainder of the day dreams.

[grannyjill]

Hey! does this mean you got double enjoyment? Only kidding. It is easy to go back and amend your comments, go to 'Edit' click, choose 'Full' and that will take you back (wait for the 'do you want to delete this' comment to pass...unless you do want to do that, of course.)
I'm doing that all the time, because I post and then see typos, or things I need to change - both in a poetry posting, or in my comments.

Thank you for your positive take on Life is for Living. I think it echoed your verse because of the sameness of my routine, day in and day out...enlivened only by unobtainable dreams.

Edit - see I'm doing it now. The series of periods after 'when' are called 'ellipses' I have a great fondness for them (as substitutes for correct punctuation)