I Feel Sorry

Scott Whitby, 2024

Worked all day

Then drank some beer

Watched TV

And went to bed

I'm laying there

She's asleep

Been awake for hours

She's sleeping sweet

I worry

Make up things not real

Baseball, God, a car wreck

my dead parents, my girls

What time is it?

Is that the sun?

...or is the moon full

Lighting the room?

Her alarm sounds

and I feel sorry

She exhales...turns it off

Too little sleep for her

She kisses my head

Says "love you"

Doesn't know I'm awake

I think "I love you too"

I doze again and worry

Make up things not real

War and babies suffering

and Elvis and demented friends

Then my alarm sounds and

I feel sorry again

I exhale and turn it off

Get up and do it again