Early starts and new writing...

I'm having an OK time of it at the moment... Getting up very early (5am) and being in work early (7am) seems to be doing me good! I'm eating healthily (sort of) and walking everywhere I can without it taking too long to be worthwhile... It's helped me discover that buses do run on time (at 6am).

And... I am writing again. Ok, so it's sketches and short stories at the moment, and just in small, spare moments, but I am writing, and enjoying it. Hence the gap in posts…
I doubt anything will be an appropriate size to fit on here, but I’m looking at setting up a website for stuff like this, and maybe making use of some good links to publish something…
I’ll leave a taster of where I am going though:

Lacking…

I lack courage and sureness of step
(I always check the ground I tread).
I lack the fibre and the guts to go on.
Luckily, I also lack the intelligence
To know I should stop.

The ground may rush towards my face,
The sky may drop towards my head.
My taste for culture may “dumb down”,
My love may not always be selfless and pure,
My thoughts may not always be perfect or true.

I may not always be consistent or punctual
And my hair not nicely preened.
I make no promise to make no sense,
Or to always nail facts to walls,
And I certainly won’t always pick up the phone…

But why should it matter what I lack?
Why should it push me away, derail me, detract?
Variety is joy – and I don’t claim to be
A saviour, messiah or saint.
And I shouldn’t, I couldn’t and wouldn’t lack

The one thing you should never lose –
The childlike awe, the wonder, respect.
Maturity and all that comes
(reading newspapers, forming considered opinion and shaving)
Can wait while the night sky entertains.