What Will You Do Today?

The weekend is upon us. It used to be, when I was a kid, weekends lent themselves to daydreams and imagination, traipsing with my sisters through the woods neighboring our house. The rose-colored thorn branches arching overhead turned into great palace halls; thick trees with wide-spread branches morphed into spaceships and forts; bog hummocks and decaying tree knots became the hidey-holes of fairies.

I do my pretend play during the weekdays now. Immerse myself in my WIPs (work-in-progress) and live vicariously through my characters while my kids are at school. But every once in a while, in the wee hours of a Saturday morning or the lazy hours of a Sunday afternoon, I drift off from reality and tap into my memories, to the days when every future possibility, every career opportunity, sparkled with promise at my feet.

Then I reach for my laptop and…

What Will I Do Today?

Today I’ll cross swords with an armored knight

Or face down a dragon in a deadly fight.

I’ll flit through the sky on papery wings

In a land of giants and magical kings.

Today I’ll pirate a ship on the seas

Hunting for treasure, attacked by the breeze.

I’ll brave the monster squished under my bed

And lure him out with some moldy bread.

I’m an agent.

A ninja.

A cat-loving ghoul.

The choices are endless,

For I set the rules.

Today I’ll snuggle with laptop or paper.

Immersed in a fantasy, drama, or caper.

Black letters adrift on an ocean of white,

I’ll open my mind…and then I will write.

Tell me. What will you do today?

(Poem originally published on scatteredwhimsy.com.)