The parcel that had arrived today, contained an old key and a list of instructions to use it..

let me fill you in..I'm using the present tense as I've lost all sense of time..

now, to the future..

what was omitted..you guessed it..was on what..a chest, a cupboard, a heart!!..

I mention the last just to give you an inkling as to where this is going.. needless to say, I spent the better part of my youth looking for the keyhole which would accept that damn key..

after a zillion slaps, a million strange looks and a quadrillion kicks in the butt..i finally found it.. Eureka..the hole where my key fit..

it's now been some time and I'm in my dotage.. frankly, I've lost track..but what I can say with certainty is this.. I wish I'd never got that damn key and better still, never found where it fit..

call me man, call me..I'm ready..