An Unexpected Vacation

Time on my hands

Arrived unexpected,

Vacation forced

By thoughts disconnected.

Time for repose,

Or those chores to be done,

Honey-do lists 

And errands to run?

Days in idle

Productivity weaned;

Old books to read

New ideas to be gleaned.

Thinking, musing,

Pouncing on pondering,

Mind’s gymnastics,

Creative wandering?

Z-z-z engulfed me

Mid-morn to afternoon;

Back to routines

Could not get here too soon.

Time upon time

Through desultory days

Work thoughts and I

Quickly parted our ways.

Not my idea

This unearned vacation,

A beastly thing,

An awful creation.

Spill beans I must

That my leisure ad hoc

Was no more than

Simply this writer’s block.