Learn To Focus Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Home again after holiday lack of discipline I'm too
tired to enjoy swimming and laying the sun & too
tired to enjoy music & animal TV programmes - I
fall asleep ever time, but delighted to see a house
bathed in soft green shades against the sun - it's
such a privilege to enjoy the house getting ready
for retirement and deciding how to change every-
thing, prepare for visiting the library where I can

Systematically go through the books and making
summaries; my only fear is losing contact with all
people once colleagues are gone & nobody who
loves language is left - my only contacts the kind
pharmacist, ladies in the library, the Lord & Master
of the Crocodile Castle and kids; it might force me
to spread my wings - actively seek companionship
in new places - and if not, learn to focus on life

In the garden and my Queen & strange Duchess…