The Last

Monday,

the last Tuesday,

the last Wednesday,

the last Thursday,

the last Friday.

Retirement in 4 days.

Unsettling and surreal.

The building didn't look like this when I started.

I didn't look like this when I started either!

I am 64.

I've worked in the same building,

with the same basic cast of characters,

for over 34 years.

I'm not a math wizard

but even I can figure out 

that's OVER half my life!

So, 

while I don't mean to fixate 

on my impending change of status,

it's little wonder that

envisioning the shape, structure and feel

of a new reality

is hard.

Not impossible,

not unwelcome,

just, 

at this moment,

hard.