It happens every time
the community centre recreation guide
arrives
like a drug
I am frothy
I am ambitious
I am dangerously
keen
my optimistic nature
is engorged
which class will reveal
my hidden gift
born to drum
wenlido
afro’robics
container gardening
I plot out my schedule
like a general
at war
until I remember
that my days are not inert
parcels of minutes
waiting to be consumed
they are spoken for
my husband
my kid
my job
forgetting too
the indulgence
of laying on the floor
in the middle of the day
stretching my limbs
like a lion
allowing my thoughts
to wander
off-leash.
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