nothingness

define today as a no day day

not remarkable in any way

a shapeless blob of time

spent doing nothing in particular 

non memorable

marked only by a morning trip to Starbucks and

hope that today’s cold brew would be better than yesterday’s

it wasn’t

yet hope stirs for tomorrow’s coffee and

tomorrow’s walk and

tomorrow’s nothingness on the patio and

projects considered and discarded and

tasks that need doing but lie forgotten and 

promises made that remain unkept and

desires unfulfilled and cold and

a body losing its vitality and vigor

now only restorative sleep remains

©KarenCasady2020