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Feb 2018
How do you cope?

How do you cope
With your job
Commuting at a snail's pace
The pressure of the role
The constant competition?

How do you cope
With family life
The dirge of the school run
Heartaches and the joy
The constant worry?

How do you cope
With growing old
Fake promises of beauty products
The creaking joints
The constant exhaustion?

How do you cope?
I don't. I'm ******* exhausted.
I think we can all relate to this somehow. We glide like swans under this exhausting facade of coping, when really we frantically paddle, hoping that we don't ripple the glossy, still water.
Sally Thomas
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Sally Thomas  F/Swansea, Wales, UK
(F/Swansea, Wales, UK)   
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