I don’t want to go to work today
It’s overcast and threatening rain
I want to sit inside and watch dramas and enjoy the rain when it finally comes
I don’t want to go to work today
I want to make a dark coffee with cinnamon and cardamon and eat even darker chocolate.
And as the rain falls I’ll turn off the television and sip my drink and stand watching it from my windows as it drives against the red dust around my windowsills.
I don’t want to go to work today
That rain is predicted to cause flooding. The parts of my world that burned will now slide away in chunks of earth and vegetation and I don’t even care because it’s not flooding yet.
Just so long as it stays cool and moist and the sky is low because of clouds not ash.
I don’t want to go to work today.
Work is about the future
And all I want for just a moment
Is to be here today
Love, February