Falling Into Line
I Can't Believe I'm Letting You Do This
We'd only have to do it once..
I thought I'd make it to the top stair
But both bags split simultaneously.
Silly idea carrying firewood in pastic bags.
It was the creaky second to last stair that did it;
The sudden jar from treading too carefully,
Hardly beathing, rising so smoothly, so smoothly.
There must have been a log on each step
Right to the bottom, bark everywhere.
A door opened and someone called out
"You alright?"
I apologised for the noise.
I thought I'd make it to the top stair
But both bags split simultaneously.
Silly idea carrying firewood in pastic bags.
It was the creaky second to last stair that did it;
The sudden jar from treading too carefully,
Hardly beathing, rising so smoothly, so smoothly.
There must have been a log on each step
Right to the bottom, bark everywhere.
A door opened and someone called out
"You alright?"
I apologised for the noise.
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