Tedious
Wow, isnt life tedious, get up, wash, dress, eat, work, eat, wash, sleep and wake again………all of this happening on a repeating cycle stretching out into eternity un-faltering and unstoppable.
I reached this conclusion after college finished, the exams wound up and responsibility diminished…..the void swelled, pregnant with expectation of the days to come. Within seconds the void collapsed and the summer swept in like a wave collapsing inward in an orgy of ice-cream and golden rays that brushed our pale tired skin. We reveled in the moment………..then silence, the fragile glass sphere containing our world shattered, sending shards cutting through the syrup thick sunshine and pouring out into the harbour of the masses, sweeping aside lesser spheres and spilling their contents, mixing and diluting the waters.
The survivors clung to the wreckage, arms flailing in a desperate attempt to recover the lost splendor, dinner jackets stained with the bloodied waters, feathered dresses limp and sodden……………..screams and shouts echoed through the eternal night and with a crack the world roared back into focus fizzled and became real.
When asked who it was that hefted the hammer and shattered our world, i would often reply that it was tedium our Queen who in her anger at our desertion of her splendid palace seized her golden hammer and threw it across the void towards out beautiful isolated islands of liberation…………..it was her who in the waters came to us in a golden boat, delicate and ethereal gliding across the mirrored waters her ivory hand extended, jewels glinting around her delicate wrist and neck whilst her perfume drifted and saturated the air around our upturned faces…it was her who cracked the void and returned us to her splendid palace.
Tedium may have tricked us into returning into her embrace, but in the end we were better for routine and order to fill the decadent empty hours spent away from the palace, after all, without appreciation and aknowledgement….what proof of life is there….longlive the Queen.
