#tasks
I just want you to want me
But experience shows
That task's an absolute impossibility
Leading to a litany of woes
I can't be too mad
No one's been able to do it
Not mother, brother, sister or dad
A reality that even to myself I don't want to admit
It hurts but brings no tears of the sad
I literally have no more to give to it
A pain universally grand
A heartbreak university grad
Minus the school spirit
Nothing left of me to offer either
There's only rubble in my chest
Ruins of love from a life prior
When the heart was left on house arrest
©2024
Dec 6, 2024
Dec 6, 2024 at 2:44 AM UTC
My head is spinning
Everything's running loose
I can't remember the last time I won
I've just been failing all of my mere tasks
Am I going to plummet even faster
Or will this just be the rock bottom
I climb up from
Oct 4, 2021
Oct 4, 2021 at 7:23 PM UTC
Push in and up against the slope
Loosened grip clasps a hold
Repeat intent between each slip
The tricky path teaches quick
Learn from within frustration
Then lean beyond a stationed pose
Hard tasks are masked in broken bits
With no one above to call upon
Possess the will to calm your fears
Retrace the steps that brought you here
Reach out across to peers instead
For each possess a thought process
Jul 25, 2020
Jul 25, 2020 at 12:08 PM UTC
As I fill the washing machine;
I think.
What a memorable scene,
As the washing machine fills
So do my eyes.
Like left over dries,
I think,
How you stained my soul.
With a green breathless dream,
I think.
How you stood next to an open fire,
I think
Your soot stained face,
Stained in every perfect place
I think.
When it turns around,
soap suds are seen.
So are my empty dreams.
May 17, 2020
May 17, 2020 at 12:39 PM UTC
Lazy she may seem
But how does she explain she is hurting
She is wounded
Bruised
Energyless to do even the simplest of tasks
For she wants to be alone in her own world,
shut the world out
and write
May 6, 2018
May 6, 2018 at 7:35 AM UTC
It's a moment before you start
The pause after you've finished
The continuation after the pause
It's reviewing yourself in the goal you have in mind
Making it toward the line that means you made it
Make it everyday
Start it
Pause
Continue the next item
Review
Disobedience to the list ensures no outcomes
Obedience is an A for Effort and a satisfying day done efficiently
Follow it to the letter
This is the founding of civilisations
Rituals, Manners, Habits
Let yourself follow
In order to follow through
Mar 30, 2018
Mar 30, 2018 at 10:17 AM UTC
I made a bowl of soup for myself tonight.
Red bean, kale, and quinoa.
I toasted two slices of bread,
buttered them,
let them cool.
I planned on dunking them
in the soup
to sop up leftover broth.
While the canned food heated
in the red saucepan
on the first burner
to the right,
I did simple tasks.
Recycled bottles from days before,
put away the dishes in the drying rack,
fed the cat.
I paced back and forth,
in my purple socks,
from my bedroom
to the kitchen,
listening to an old record
that sounds like nostalgia.
I did simple tasks.
Small, achievable things.
Self care comes
in many forms.
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 3:50 PM UTC
a woman's work is ever ongoing
she cooks, washes and does all hubby's mowing
the list of her daily duties quite long
she's never free from these demanding tasks
her days are as full as the fullest flasks
at no time is the housewife taking spells
every minute rings in requesting bells
few assist they're off singing an easy song
whereas the underpaid maid grinds tough stone
her hands worn down to barest possible bone
women carry tons of bricks a real heavy freight
not for one second will they idle or laze
they're running around in the busiest haze
by week's end they do feel a loading's weight
Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 5:19 AM UTC
Set out the day
To accomplish a great deal
First there was the cat
The paper's need for read
Breakfast with bacon
Coffee is so good
Then a call or two
Really must get busy
So much to do
Pause for a think
Time to reflect
Write a line or two
...
Quickly the sun is setting
Too dark to write
Time now for a
Bit of wine to relax
Rest from the weary work
Of this long day of think
© 2017 Jim Davis
Mar 29, 2017
Mar 29, 2017 at 9:53 AM UTC
*roads to take
places to go
people to meet
and shuffle to feet
we all have
hellos to say
moments to pray
cradle and grave
paths to pave
we all have
Hearts to break
Hours to wake
puzzles to try
and planes to fly
we all have
boats to row
emotions raw
Highs and lows
profits and loss
We all have
oceans to cross
closures, new doors
Dye to toss
Hammers and crows
We all have
problems to solve
push to shove
people to love
the dreams we have
we all have
laces to shoe
**** we've been through
cypher to construe
me and you
we all have
duties to do*
Apr 6, 2016
Apr 6, 2016 at 4:01 AM UTC