Burning Daylight What Does It Mean

BURNING DAYLIGHT by Kevin L Fairbrother Burning Daylight what ever does it mean Could be about your daily routine Or the hours you work from daylight to dusk Maybe it means how you use the daylight hours For your own satisfaction and well-being … To me it’s about crawling out of bed After a restless night sleep from the heat As evident from the crumpled and soaked sheets As I greet the burning sun’s rays that announce the new day … Have to face the new day of heat, dust and flies What-ever the weather there is work to be done So it’s on with the shorts, t-shirt and wide brimmed hat And a liberal smothering of sun screen with high UV … Gather my pack of bottled water then on my bike with dogs in tow Down to the long paddock to gather the sheep Already the shimmering horizon beggar's belief For the hot dry wind burns the air I’m trying to breathe … Burning daylight it’s like the earth is on fire For it saps my energy, dulls my brain and sweat rolls off Man and dog must be crazy to be burning daylight in this heat As the temperature climbs to well above 50 degrees … No shade and no relief from the creek that has run dry With the dogs panting we gather the sheep and lambs And push on to the homestead and out of the heat dust and flies For there will be shelter, shade and cool water to drink … I sit on the porch the dog at my feet and enjoy a feed and a drink As the daylight hours fade away to a night sky But there is no relief for the heat still lingers and burns I know I will be facing the burning of daylight hours yet again