WAKING

When I go, to sleep at night
I fall, into this dark abyss
Only to wake up in morn
And have this, urge to piss
 
But with my body, indisposed
With its, early morning stasis
All attempts at getting up
Take so much longer, on this basis
 
And as those fluids start to move
Pulsate and finally flow
It’s like a glazier slowly melting
Disposing, of its ice and snow
 
My brain engages slowly
Like an inverse lava flow
It plods its way, up my nape
Then ignites my brain, let’s go
 
And as I sit there, peeing
For I no longer stand
I find it hard, to get back up
So my wife gives me a hand
 
Then I limp to go downstairs
But find the stairs too steep
So turn around, head back to bed
And go right back, to sleep
 
Then as I lay there
And I doze
I feel quite torpid
In my repose
 
Until my wife
Does come along
And gives to me
Her dance and song
 
“Get off your ass”
“You lazy bum”
“I have some things”
“That I need done”
 
So once more, I rouse myself
And strain, each weary bone
Crawl back, out of bed again
To face, that great unknown  
BOEMS by JA 174