perhaps it is only
because i am tired,
if so
i have been tired
for a very long time
but i have not
been able to dream
those kinds of dreams
in a very long while, or
i realize those dreams
were never meant
for me
so i carve them away
with rust-pitted blades
at the end of a tired
long day
watching dreams
slip down the drain
8 responses to “tired long”
Speaks to the guts of it. Good stuff
Thank you!
these rust-pitted blades. they gut me. in a good way : )
Thank you Stacey 💙
I’ve been tired for a long time too. I do dream but not always in a way that’s good for me. I guess it’s more like imagining different paths than dreaming. It feels like my road is narrowing.
I feel the same. The road narrows and, instead of flailing about to try and redirect it to cast into my image, I have a sense of acceptance.
Or surrender.
Maybe this next chapter is about turning toward what is instead of what we thought it would be? There’s beauty in all cycles of life.
There is a beauty, but sometimes we can’t see it for all of looking the other way (usually in the rearview mirror).