Pay Attention!
A Poem
My mind is clouded
Like a rainy day
Pay attention!
Work, clean, cook, referee
All of these responsibilities at my feet
I am drowning
Drowning under the pressure
The suffocating feeling of breathing everyone else’s air
Never having a moment to just be
Eat healthily
Exercise and focus on your weight
Pay attention!
Make more money
Be more attentive to the kids
Stop letting them watch so much TV
Pay attention!
Work
Focus on writing
You’re not giving the kids enough attention again
Don’t you know they need your time?
Pay attention!
Be more intimate
More “in the mood”
Pay attention!
My attention is gone
My focus is thin
I am losing myself
Pay attention!
Criticism, arguments, needs
What about me?
Pay attention!
I can feel myself cracking
Like a rock under the weight of a river
Pay attention!
No time to repair it
Too much to do
Pay attention!
If only they knew
I have no attention left to give
