missing, slipping and sliding away, and a definite ghost out of the past, and such things are funny, if humorous, but opportunities? probably not, never paid attention, never noticed, never saw, never thought, glanced, hinted, guessed, hypothesized, but sleep beckons, and this time in a bed, with pillows, with closed blinds, sleep will be nice, and no idea what the future holds, no idea what the future brings, no idea, questions with no answers, paths with no exit signs, no atlas to this, the next step of life, and people are always able to find it, whatever it may be, it's funny, it always is, glimpses, mere seconds, mere chances at it all, and you gotta wonder, you gotta ask, you gotta kid and laugh and cry, and maybe happiness is a one way street, like gravity, like water down the drain, and away it goes, no altering the laws of nature and physics and thermodynamics.