Reading  the statement
that you have just made,
in which there’s
nothing but nought,
you’re “unaware of  the details
the committee outlined,
and have yet to read its report.”

Moving-on, looking forward,
the time has now come,
for challenges
of a personal sort,
my time will surely
be put to test-
and a career
put to its sword

There is time for
a memoir and
columns to write,
time for TV
-as a guest-
there’s time for coupled
walks on the beach,
towards the sun
as it sinks
in the west.

Words and foto Tommy Carroll