National Month of Poems – Days 19 and 20

A couple on over-exertion:

Heavy Burdens

Who are you,
Untended, untamed?
Measuring your moments
With uncertain pride.
When you carry
Your burden
And drag your reasons
Unrestrained.

So Tired

One thing begets another
Until I am swimming
In a sea of obligation,
Until I miss the sight of land
For the clamoring masses
Buoyed by the promise of
A moment to come.