Mental Health Month
Is your daily grind like this?
The Grind
Slave to the
keyboard
Another meeting
No different to
all the others
Listening to
someone bitch
Having to
succumb to the whims
Of a person
above you
That you don’t
like
Changing the
diapers of a 88 year old
Answering the
phone
Making the call
Sending that vital email
Sending that vital email
Reading the meter
Changing the plug
Trying to change the client's mind
Cleaning up after another's muck
You need coffee
You need your
daily break
You need more
drugs
For that
reoccurring headache.
Finally that
last hour comes around
You sigh as you
walk out the door
And prepare
To follow other
routines
All the way to
bed
And back again.
This is the
life
The way it must
be
So we are led
to believe
The reason why
we've endured
Years of more
routines we didn’t like
In those
budding years
Youth fleeting as it is
Youth fleeting as it is
When we should
have been having more fun
And maybe
learning about more important things
Like
relationships
And how to get
through the grind
Or come up with
other alternatives
Other than Pi
and formulas
and other crap
That we will
never need.
Call me old
fashioned
Or maybe
deranged
But maybe we
wouldn’t have to ‘grind’ so much
If there wasn’t
this incessant rush
To a version 4.2
upgrade
Which is
probably worse than the last
When the one
before that was good enough.
Perhaps if the
world slowed down a little
And we talked
to each other
And sat back
and looked at the stars
And the rocks
and realized
That we stand
with giants
And angels
But only
But only
For the
briefest possible moment.
Simple is the way
to be
It gives us
calm and poise and space
To enjoy our
limited time
While we can.
copyright 2012 anthony j. langford
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This series is written from the heart and personal experiences.
Please share if you can, or comment. Alternatively email me if you want to reach out.
More in the Series on Mental Health.
Next week will be a new Poem and Video on Anxiety/Depression.
At the end of this 5 part series I'll be compiling, 4 out of 5 of them into a pdf for download, plus with an extra 6, 10 in total. It will be called All Empires Crumble. All deal with Mental Health and all are from 2019.
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Yep, sometimes my life is just a series of routines.
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