I had a dream
I had a dream. I dreamt it’s time to go.
It’s time to leave. It’s time to stop this game.
My boss appeared, the one from years ago.
Her face was pink and thick with orange paint.
“Still here? They don’t pay you any more”,
she said. Some nearby colleagues showed a faint
concern, and others slyly looked away.
I thought, it’s true, it’s time to leave this place
although I feel I haven’t had my day.
And all that work, those passing triumphs, seem
so small, so futile now. Yet they were me,
or so I thought.
Piers Cain grew up in Ruislip, Middlesex a ‘Metroland’ suburb of outer London. He read History at University College London and subsequently obtained a postgraduate diploma in Archive Studies. He lives in Stromness, Orkney.