Tired As Hell, But I Can Take It

My get up & go
Got up and went
And it's not coming back
Like an absentee father
Who went out for smokes
Leaving a single mother
To raise my inner child
My Outer Adult hurts like hell
A soul-pain that permeates my entire being
Man, I wish I wasn't so Goddamn tired
No amount of Energy Drinks can start my engine
Left idling as Time grinds the gears
And again I'm going nowhere

Forward momentum
Raging retrograde
Rocking back & forth
In the fetal position
As the World comes crashing in around you
Like an egg
Weak on all sides
But impenetrable from the top down
You cannot crush my Spirit
A 2nd wind is coming
And I'm gonna ride it till the wheels fall off

8-14-2024