“Are you free next Monday?” you asked me twice, and I said, “Yes,” without waiting you to thrice.
“This time is yours: I’ve reserved it for you; it’s saved in a safe signed ‘Accessible to few’.”
You may think you are out, and partly you are, but only with the drawer that is behind the bar.
It bears the inscription “Come and Go”, which has to remind me you’re not mine to own.
But there is a part locked deep inside, which is mine on all behalf,
Because it belongs to a common past invested with a mutual trust.
You asked me to come and help you through and I was happy to be teaching you.
Maybe it’s scary to venture anew and start to do things where there are few,
But think of the option of having to brew just by yourself and nothing to hew.

Lil
26/05/2014