I watch you, busy

cleaning a floor that

doesn’t need cleaning,

I know you didn’t sleep

last night, I did, that’s

how I know, we’ll go

at lunchtime and say

goodbye to her,

neither of us need it

but rituals are rituals

we’ll soon be back home

with nothing left to

be sad about, 

our lives go on

together

© Grham R Sherwood 04/25