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OVERTIME

May 11, 2023
By Anonymous

1          “My feet hurt. But I have to get this done”.

2      Right now, not later.

         Treat yesterday like tomorrow.

         The smell of hard work. 

“How have you been”?

How do you answer that? 

Holding the weight of things you can't lift. 

My mouth goes on to say, “new day same sh*t”. 

The feeling of having to.

Drowning in the debt of life and swimming in regret of decisions.

Wait what's going on? You ask yourself as you realize

        where you've been for the past life. 

But not your life. Their life. His life. Her life. 

Sometimes we die just to step one foot closer towards

12 life. 

"Given' everything they got to stitch them swishers on ya Nike's". (Line37) WWGO

15 New school most likely. With your appearance being                 

Pricey. Fighting. Riding. Hating. Liking. 

But loving it all until we're at rest.

17 Inhaling the hustle until our last breath.

18 “Keepin’ your head above water, hustilin’ to

survive”.(Line28) WWGO

That's you being you. The you that you have to

be.

 Your mind told you “stay asleep” your body yelling 21 “FIVE MORE MINUTES”! Alarm screaming “SOS”. Just time to get the week finished. 

22 Being in that group is just living life with a soul. 

23 Hair blowing in the wind. Feelin’ the heat in the cold. 24 Emotion, feeling, dealing with shivers and chilling’s 25 of the cold outside world. But embracing it 

26 nonetheless. 


The author's comments:

This poem was inspired by the "The Roots" using quotes from their song 'wait what's going on'. The theme of of the poem is the struggle of reality being the issues of have the feeling of not wanting to wake up in the morning, or being overworked. 


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