These simple parameters defining much of my existence just now, just now deep into living, deep down,

As daylight comes I feel the heavy slog of life’s demands, pit of my stomach, all the things to do, just want to be,

Called to actions and doing and duty, called to duty again, dark humor in play, for so long trained up to act and do, rise to the moment but now, decades in, feel less so,

Darkness calls to rest, welcome rest and reflection and pause, need more pause, more rest, welcome darkness that brings more rest,

Oh day after day we get up and we say, and do it again, come on and do it again.