Getting up
Is essential
For health: physical and mental
Regardless of our drive
We need to rise to stay alive
The warmth
The dream
The rest
The peace
Becomes each day beyond our reach
It’s a fact of life we can’t ignore
plant both feet
Stand on the floor
Find the trick
To pull back the sheets
The nick
The nack
To get to your feet
Tea, toast, chocolate spread
Whatever needed to get out of bed
In the morning, there’s little time to spare
Not much time to straighten hair
And when you think of the list of to-dos
It’s really tempting to just hit snooze
But what would we become if we slept all day?
Our brains would rot
Muscles wither away.
We’d lose our jobs
We’d have no cash
We’d get an itchy bed sore rash
And we’d having nothing to tell our friends
No chat, no beginnings or ends
We’d communicate through our phones
And we’d run out of food and lose our homes
So, the moral is, you must get up
life’s what you make it
Not down to luck
Contemporary Poetry: A Snapshot in Time 