Promised Leisure

Here we are huddled together
you and me
As we might have been
ten thousand years ago
in some smoky cave
Taking the moments available
between hunger, thirst and shelter
These more modern days defined
by your work and mine

What happened to that promised leisure
we spoke of in the early days
in secret conversations
whispered among kisses
I remember them
Those promises
that we would be diffreent
that we would never make
the choices of our parents

Yet here we are like cave creatures
at half past seven
struggling among the timeless
ten thousand years or now
And I need to take you in my arms
lift your chin and spend away the moment
to feel you breathe and know
it's not a never-ending fate
but just our choices

Can we turn off our lives
to stretch and yawn
Let the dinner go to hell
and light some candles
Lock up my cased papers
for another day
and yours as well
Be idle for a time
in promised leisure