We make appointments in our minds

Then, we resolve to deliver on time

But - just what is it we do with it all?

Have we just created stress on call?



Life can be so easy and uneventful

If only we take things away from pulls ...

The ones we create in our own minds

As well as the ones making us climb ...



The ladders we scale are self-imposed

Coveting, saying we have to have those

But none of it is important enough to lessen

The real value in life - which so glistens ...



Relationships we build with a few others close

(The ones who share themselves nose to nose)

For those - there is no imposition of our time

For those wonderful folks can have it all ... 

                                           and that's fine!!!



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

9pm Sunday, July 5th, 1998