Weary (Photo credit: PatrickYHC)
Mere exhaustion does not suffice
To name this creeping malaise
This sensory overload
Flickering like fading starlight
Centuries in the pitted deep
Stricken ache along
Elegant limbs, torn
Between a moment
Of movement and no momentum
Gut wrenchingly sick
To the stomach
Dangling head upon shoulders
Unsteady, neck like a marionette
I crawl out of some darkness
Blinded by light too clear
To bear
What is born of a moment’s hesitation
False and failing exhilaration
One step before dusty death?
(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
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[ Smiles ] Nice work, my friend!
Thank you!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Every day you perpetually amaze me with your ability to come up with phrases that I would love for one of my character’s to speak. Where does your muse hail from woman? I want one.
LOL, the muse for this came from being really, really tired… more generally, I don’t know to be honest…usually a poem comes from a fragment or a set of words, often the first lines and kind of just evolves.. often I don’t know what it’s about till about halfway through….it’s all a mystery to me really!! 🙂 🙂
I’ve had hangovers just like that.
Yep, too much life or too much drink…the result tends to be the same, LOL!! 🙂
Sis you need to get more sleep hon xxxx Great read 😉
I get lots of sleep…I just think my work is mad at the moment and it tires me out!! 🙂
I felt your weariness in this one which makes it even more powerful!! xoxo
Thank you! I wrote it the day after I did a marathon day at work and literally felt sick with exhaustion…the memory of the feeling was still fresh. 🙂
I hate that you were that exhausted, but I love that it fueled your creative juices! xoxo
Thanks!! 🙂
you hit the nail on the head with this one – i love the last two words – “dusty death”. Just two words but packed full of substance and meaning.
Thanks so much!! 🙂 🙂
Wow fantastic, I recognize this feeling all too well
Thanks, yep, its a killer when you get that tired!! 🙂 🙂
It is! With this virus/bacterial infection/seizures I have been that exhausted more than I care for this last few weeks, not that I ever care for it lol
Ouch…doesn’t sound like fun!!
No it really isn’t but I am on the path to recovery!
Wow!! You have described what I have felt way to often as of late. Great work…..now, get some rest, Dear One!!
I will, you get some rest too if you are feeling like this my dear friend!! huggss xxx 🙂