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Tired

October 2, 2019
By smallfrey2001 BRONZE, Canton, Illinois
smallfrey2001 BRONZE, Canton, Illinois
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A simple task

Seems insurmountable

As you lay in your bed

Oh so tired

Your eyelids feel so burdensome

As if they were strapped down by weights

You just want to sleep

Have everything drift away

But you need to get up

Go start your day

go to school or work

However, it hurts

It all hurts so much

Like your everything is being torn apart

So you lay in your bed

Oh so tired

When people try to help

You don't want it

They just make it all worse

So you just lie in bed

Just like you have been for weeks

Because it’s too hard

Everything is just too hard

You can’t get up

You can’t start your day

You can’t let them help

But you can stay here in bed all alone

Because your eyelids feel so burdensome

And you're just oh so tired of it all


The author's comments:

This poem is about my father and how he acted after he lost his job and quit drinking


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