are not about monsters

crazed ex-girlfriend

demons or night hags

or being in hell

they are about working again

I have been retired going on 3
years now

and

to have a dream where I’m
working on a job again

is like a nightmare to me
maybe because it’s like

losing the freedom of not
having to work any more

that I have and cherish

Bob Boyd

It surprises me that I feel that way when I wake up from those dreams. When I worked, I was extremely driven and never wanted to retire. Initially I had planned to work till I couldn’t work any more because of an infirmity, my mind too dulled by age, or by death. Yet, once I was retired I enjoyed the freedom of not being under anyone’s control – no bosses over me – that I knew I could never work again. Now I work for myself writing poems everyday as a hobby. And I kinda feel like I did in my twenties, free and happy.