The Swiftness of the Days

 

 

I am so terribly confused

Regarding these days

That I am overcompensating

In so many ways.

Take for example

The swiftness of time:

I mix up these days

Like I am out of my mind.

Bank Holidays are Sundays

Thursdays begin weekends

And often I ask what day it is

Like I’m off the deep end.

In my mind I think

Yesterday is two days gone

When in actual fact

Today is only the second dawn.

Maybe for just for me

It would be wise

If the days could be reorganized

As a personal compromise.

Today would be yesterday

And yesterday the day before,

Tomorrow would be today

And I would struggle no more.

I would be better able

To keep up with the time

And I would no longer feel

Like I am out of my mind.

Today would be Tuesday

Yesterday would have been Monday

And that would put me on cue

Even though ahead by one day.

   

Yes, change the days

So that retirees can keep up

And we won’t mistake the days

And run out of luck.

Like when we seek a bargain

On a particular day

And we are told it was the day before

Meaning it was yesterday.

So, that yesterday, as I see it

Is the day before,

Day before is therefore two days earlier

Need I say more?

That works for the seller

Let it also work for me

And adjust all of the other days

Accordingly.

I did not plan to go there

But I discovered a precedent,

Since bargains are the day before

I’d be a day late in any event.

Stewart Russell © August 2020