The Masterplan

Feeling exhaustion wash over me
And rain sweeping past the window
Across an empty car park

Bluetoothing Oasis through the radio

Slide Away
Live Forever

And hearing those for the first time
Twenty-six years ago
In Leeds

Not far, as the rain travels
But oh so far in life

Soundtrack to a snowboard video
Four heads in an upstairs room
In Oakwood

Now listening, like an obsessive
To the cymbal crash
And October sun streaking across the duvet

Voices in the corridor
Housekeeping

Thinking, in another twenty-six years
Well, I came into all this late…

Whatever