Day 6 of 108

Veni, Vidi, Vici...softly

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Okay I am writing this quickly so that I can get on to my other reading and writing.

1. Papa is well. I did not talk to him today but there were no urgent calls. So that is good.

2. Cook made very tasty sweet potato fry today. I tossed it with some chill flakes and red salt. Very yummy.

3. My Christmas tree is looking so lovely! Touchwood! I feel blessed and blissed out.

4. Got immersed in a great book. I really can't wait to get back to it.

5. Enjoyed kombucha - the natural/ original flavor from Atmosphere - along with some zero calorie lemonade.

6. Enjoyed a super game with some fellow instructional designers. It was a word association game called Codename. That was fun. And my team won! Both times!

7. I made tea. It is so, so good! 

8. Someone shared this poem with me on WhatsApp...

I met the moon for coffee

It was Friday night I think

When she watched me hardly sleeping

And invited me for drinks

We found ourselves a table

In the middle of the night 

And the constellations twinkled

Like a thousand fairy lights

She asked me how I’d been

As she poured coffee from a pot

For she said she’d watched me

Waking up at midnight quite a lot

I said my brain was far too full

My mind was always on

And when I woke it felt as if

I was the only one

The only one who lay awake 

Whilst I sat on my bed

With thoughts that raced at lightning speed

Around my busy head

The only one who watched the clock

Tick one and two and three

Who laid awake and worried

Whilst the world was fast asleep

My thoughts were stuck in orbit

And I couldn’t pull them back

As they preferred to swim against

A sky so vast and black

The moon said simply nothing

But she opened up a book

And I saw it was a diary

So I took a closer look

And listed there were names of people

All around the world

And all the thoughts and worries

That the moon had overheard

Just then, my eyes were drawn towards

The name that was my own

And that was when the moon said 

“See, you shouldn’t feel alone”

And then she pulled me close

Using the night sky as a blanket

And said “I know you sometimes feel

So lonely on this planet

But when you cannot sleep, 

Get up and watch me from your room

And you’ll see so many others

Having coffee with the moon

- Poem by Becky Hemsley