All Day Long

What is it that you do all day?

Only it seems very much like you play.

Really, what is it that you do?

Keep going on about it, don’t you?

 You’ve had all day.

Please set that aside,

Look, I don’t mean to deride.

At least listen to me,

You know there is more that what you see.

 Don’t judge my book without even seeing the cover.

Let’s take a step back,

I know know you think it’s sanity I lack.

Very much work I put myself to,

Even if it is not something you do.

We all have to begin somewhere.

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Written as an answer to some of the children I live with. They come home from school and often think that I have just played video games all the day long. They don’t seem to understand that I have spent just as long working as they have at school. (shrugs) Ah well, life goes on and I’m sure that like I did they will learn that there is always more going on behind the scenes.

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