My granny said she felt like she was 18!

 Have you got time for this?

Drove home from work today

with the radio on in the car.

I heard the time pips

and made it from the car

to the kitchen before

they finished.

"I'm home before 5!" 

I said proudly to anyone who was listening.

They all gave me one of those

"Andrew, you are such a fool!" looks

and carried on with what they were doing.

"Listen" I said

I heard Jim Croce singing "...time in a bottle..."

Just then Mary had dinner on the table.

Mary and  our 3 sons (and one sons friend)

gathered round,

eating.

We forgot Jim and the bottle for a moment.

Stop! It's News time!

We all stopped

heard the news.

Homework time is next.

"What is for homework?" says I

"Theories about time." says Finn.

As if you could figure this out like 27 times 4.

Look Dad! Stephen Hawking has a theory.

"Imagine a hill..."

I imagine a hill.

"...with a hole in it..."

I imagine a hill with a hole in it.

"...if you run around the hill..."

I imagine running around the hill.

Me, fit, young, fast....

"Dad! (a little exasperation from Finn)

...now if you went through the hole..."

"yes"

"and time went around the hill..."

"...?"

"You'd beat time!" says Finn...laughing.

He's 13.

I'm not.

Just like that.

Quick as a flash.

I'd never understood wormholes till then.

Poem time now.

Family tucked up.

Goodnight kissed

and teeth brushed.

What'll I write?

Time springs to mind.

The time of a childhood memory

as long as my brain allows.

Me by a river 40 years ago.

A laugh in my head. 

I tell 5 year old

students at work

that waiting

is the hardest thing!!!

Then it hits me.

A memory

My granny said she felt like she was 18!

She must have been 85.

I emerge from a hole in the side of a hill.

How come you're not here...

yet?