Catnaps, HNTs, and hearts full of wine

I got off work Saturday morning with the intention of getting a quick nap in and getting up and getting some things done I have been putting off. Well the best laid plans of mice and men.....you know the rest. I awoke bright and early at 4 pm......not awake early as planned. I very seldom set an alarm. I can (don't ask how) usually awaken within a certain time frame without using one of these devices. Today I did not......actually I did awaken at 10ish long enough to look at the clock but rolled onto my back and drifted back to sleep. I did manage to get the lawn mower loaded up and got my new grass mowed. Its coming along nicely.....yes I did take the digicam and yes I did run out of daylight before I was able to get some pics of the progress. I also managed to finally get the oil changed in the truck. I have about reached the 75% sure-I-will-try-to-sell-it-mark so I might go ahead and list it for sale next week. I have too many projects I want to get started on and it would really make sense to go ahead and sell it. Surely some of these spoiled kids in town can talk their dads into buying this truck for them right? Also got the grass watered really well even though we did finally get about a 1 1/2" rain last week. It's so dry you cannot even tell it now.
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I mentioned it at the end of my comments from the previous HNT but got to thinking....WTH goes back and re-reads MY old comments? So anyway I do think I will continue participating in HNT for now although I might be taking a short break. Main reason being I am not one to take a pic of a shadow that noone in their right mind can make hide nor hair of. So many of these get done and thats cool if thats what the person wants to do , but I will not. I feel like if I cannot do something that might make someone smile....or make them laugh..... or even make them compliment me (we all love compliments right?) then why should I waste MY time OR yours? So no pics by candlelight of the bottom of the tip of my toe will be used in this here blog. I am also planning on making Fridays my " Share A Poem" day......I do hope some of you will stop by and give your HONEST opinion. If it sucks...let me know. If it makes you laugh.....tell me. If it makes you cry.....I would love to hear about it. If it makes you want to shoot me.....I would really appreciate it if you just wing me a little instead of a direct hit to the heart. At any rate the number and address listed for me is no longer valid so please do not come drive by shooting. :D
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Since I did not post a poem this past Friday and its only Sunday morning now maybe I should go ahead and get caught up.....I did sleep all day so I won't be sleeping anytime soon.

Alone

As I sit here alone in my room

With nothing around me but remnants of you

Why do I feel so alive, so warm

As if a weight has been lifted, worries few.

Why did you leave me, I asked myself now

Was it so bad we could not work it out?

All I know is whats done is done

I cannot, I WILL not sit here and pout.

So many lives around me, waiting to find

the love I have bottled up, aging like wine

Problem with that is, the longer it sits

The cork gets harder and harder to lift.

As wine, do I want to use this with HER?

Will there be another more special one

to share it with, to serve it to

She may not even like it once its been opened.

Hating to take the chance it might not please

I leave the cork in, pushing deeper in

As it gets older the love gets more value

When will I ever share it again?

Love like wine can spoil with age

Wine on a shelf ,love in a heart

Unused they are like ornaments

once they are opened, they so soon depart.

Sharing of wine like sharing of love

can lead so many places, journeys

And another sad thing is often so true

They can both lead to riches for attorneys.

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You never know what a bottle of wine thats been sitting on a shelf for many years will be like once it is opened. The same goes for hearts. So many hearts go unused other than to pulse life through the arteries of their bodies. Then when it comes time to open them up and share them, we so often find that they have sat for so long that they are acrid or bitter. How does one approach a wine or a heart thats been on the shelf for a while? Either one is a gamble to be sure. Both can be so pleasant if consumed properly. I truly believe that wine as well as hearts have a lifespan. I sometimes think mine has been shelved for too long sometimes. Every once in a while someone comes along and gets a glimpse of what it might be hiding. Should I open the "bottle" and pour her a "glass"? Or should I let this "bottle" sit on the shelf until the RIGHT one comes along. What if the right one comes along too late and she finds the cork has been pulled? So many questions.....so few answers. Anyone care to share a glass ? I can go get the corkscrew........if its the heart you are after please bring your own corkscrew as only YOU can open IT.

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Brad