You are off the hook now … so leave it there

When we all attend your evening do ensure you arrive on time

For we are here for a show of our life

We are not often concerned with the drama outside the remit of our own worlds but of late that has been my soul draining time

I have struggled with the intensity of the existence of others in my sights 

I cannot fix them 

I have realised after a long endurance test that I cannot physically or emotionally fix them all 

And the most significant lesson is that I didn’t have to

It was never my job 

Never my purpose

Never my calling

If I am to succeed and survive this current damp spell I am to stop thinking I need to 

How could I possibly 

When would it end

I need to see it for what it is

Give them what my title deems acceptable and forward them on

Instruct them of the services available 

Then when the day is drawing to a close

When the lessons are over

Sign off 

Let go and switch off

Don’t leave myself in stand by for the inevitability of that mistake

The messages the concerns the support 

I will never meet my own demands so why start the eternal spiral of disappointment 

Let them know I did my utmost 

Record the words accurately 

Then collect my bags and coat

And leave