Moment in the Sun
A poem about here and now
Put down heavy things: the laundry and the council tax bill, the iphone and the newspaper. Put down the black and white photographs framed in silver on the dresser and the forgotten ideas in yellowing notebooks which are gathering dust in the garage. Put down that vivid, just-remembered dream of a night 20 years ago; the strange, unnamed sadness of an almost-memory of what might have been; put down your hunger for adventure and the green perspex earrings from the 80s which your mother gave you. Put down all the stories, all the lists and grievances, the spoonful of sugar you could probably do without, the stack of unread books and the finely crafted masks you collected on your travels. Just for now, put down the hidden bag of stones which weighs you down — it will still be there when you come back. Put down your closely-guarded fears and your dreams of a future which may or may not come, just go outside a moment and turn your face to the warmth of that dazzling, golden sun.
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