Like Sleepwalking

You who wish to conquer pain/ You must learn what makes me kind/ The crumbs of love that you offer me/ Are the crumbs/ I've left behind/ Your pain is no credential here/ It's just a shadow of my wound

I have begun to ask for you/ I who have no greed/ I have begun to long for you/ I who have no need/ You say you've gone away from me/ But I can feel you when you breathe

To sleep-talk so loudly as to wake myself up

A fuddy-duddy, sometimes without the hyphen,^[1] is a person who is fussy while old-fashioned, traditionalist, conformist, or conservative, sometimes almost to the point of eccentricity or geekiness. It is a slang term, mildly derogatory but sometimes affectionate too, that dates to ca. 1907^[2] and can be used to describe someone with a zealous focus on order.^[3]
The terms fusspot, fusser, stick-in-the-mud, spoilsport, wet blanket, old fogy/fogey, stuffed shirt ^[4] and fuddy-dud are synonyms of the term.^[5]

Happy start to a new week [Monday morning]

Last weekend on repeat, repeat