As I am Passing

i.

It is always when I think I am doing 
Great, that Life says ‘Getting complacent, are we?’

And swiftly throws a curved ball in my direction 

Then shouts ‘Heads up!’ as I watch helplessly

How my world again turning topsy turvy.

ii.

I know.

Or rather, I should know better.

iii.

But maybe I lack understanding

Of how to walk this Earth with caution

How to love myself more than summer suns

And - to my foolish heart - how to be kind

But my head, it keeps forgetting 

This simple fact-of-life, so damning

That these tests are never ending

As I am passing.

Anzaiety

12th March 2019

Cotswold