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  • The next thing

    Why do i feel this need to be busy?

    That there is always something I must be doing
    Be getting to
    Be fixin to get up on
    Almost about ready to

    Do

    That the task at hand
    (Frequently formed as a phone)
    Is somehow vital
    And not enough

    Because it’s always at least halfway about
    the next thing

    (Oh and you just wait
    for the next thing
    I hear
    It’s going to be amazing)

    Why does my mind divide
    Between the this and the then

    Always trying to peer over the bright horizon
    Squinting into the glare
    Trying to catch the best opportunity that i see
    hurtling toward me
    Against the inscrutable light of the then
    Always rising in somewhere’s east

    While i trip over my shoes

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