I Am Tired
A hundred to one.
I can do a hundred good deeds,
But one bad deed,
Will destroy them.
By now I am so far in debt,
I can never repay,
What I owe.
Even death cannot now be recompense,
I can only repay,
For all eternity.
I am tired.
I am tired of trying.
Trying to do things for others,
When I will fail or forget some small thing,
And that is what they remember.
Trying to have a child,
Never to know the joy and sorrow,
When failure is all I meet.
Trying to have hope,
When it is beaten out of me every day,
And I struggle to go on.
I am tired of living,
Struggling day to day,
To meet more failures in the future.
I am tired of trying to provide,
Seeing those faces when I cannot,
Faces not remembering what I have.
I am tired of working,
Doing my best every day,
To see it undone the next.
I am tired of my creativity,
Having wonderful things waiting to be made,
Never seeing day, for lack of time.
I am tired of the world,
One where I never fit in,
And becomes worse every day.
I am tired of being tired,
Eternally plodding from one thing to the next,
Never to know rest.
I am tired.
Copyright © Evan Griffin | Year Posted 2015
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