gattaca

she's squandered her life in the biblical sense
perhaps the talent in question wasn't very big
just one coin's worth

But did she plant it?
or labour over it?

Somehow the time got spent
in feeding, clothing and holding down various roofs over her head
or making a fort, getting lost in the bush, looking at the sea in her mind's eye
that's the excuse anyway
the endless list

And now here she is at 47 years old
too old to blush
at the ludicrous phrase, 'one day...'