Clocking Out
He was ready to rake, the leaves that is,
That morning, but the trees hadn’t cooperated.
They would need more time.
Time doesn’t always work on our schedule.
Has its own. If it is needed, time that is,
Time alone can grant it.
Sometimes the need is acute for more.
Others desperate for less. Still upon occasion
Both simultaneously wanted.
Or at least one or the other—
More time allotted or less demanded
As the case may be that is.