3am

The Return:

From the Bathroom

Every night I'm shuffling

Dancing in the song

Geriatric in life

Slow, quiet, shuffle

No drag, not a shuffle

Drag is loud

Slower

Splinters

Not shuffling

Plodding? Is this what books call plodding?

Little steps

Tiny steps

Mere inches up

A few inches forward

Slow, quiet, baby steps

Avoid the stub

Avoid the step on

The run into

Don't trip

Don't fall

Still stumble

Left by me

Left by the cat

Left by the night

Walls move in the dark

New angles

Too much furniture in a small Toronto apartment

------ Christine Sweeton, 2013