(In)vocation (2016 April PAD - Day 18)

photo by PSC / 2015

(In)vocation

Her heart’s set on a change.

She’s already looking

forward to a new office –

planning to exchange

these concrete corridors,

cubicle walls and re-circulated air

for some dirt trails, towering

trees, and clean breezes.

She’s fully prepared

to transform from fluorescent

lights into filtered sunshine,

and she’s hoping to

trade in her alarm clock,

to abide by a time keeper 

of a more

celestial nature.

She’s even amenable to heeding

the morning announcements –

(but only if they’re

pronounced by peepers),

and hearkening

to some office scuttlebutt –

(so long as it’s bantered about

by a babbling brook.)

She’s currently of a mind

to swap out her conference calls

for bird calls –

(shouted, sung, flung

to the four winds) and

she’s likewise inclined

to barter her glass ceiling

for a wide, diamond-strung sky.

PSC / 2016

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 Penned for Day 18 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge. 

Assignment: an office poem

 For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-18