Best Workbody Poems


Old Man On the Inside

Consuming time is hard
Harder than many people think
Your mind begins to wonder
Pushing boredom to the brink

The brink of disaster
Mind and body begin to work
Motionless your mind moves
Your body begins to hurt

Unsettled and settling
Who can compare between the two
Unfinished buisiness among us
Ten years feeling like two

When will it all end
These Time consuming days
Every year it gets harder
constantly pushing work in my face

Growing old and working 
No sleep to one's eye
The feeling of being useless
The feeling of wanting another life

Take lifes cookie
And crumble it as you wish
You take it with a grain of salt
And try and make another dish

No Clarity But Surrender

Chuck this hierarchy 
Want to scramble this all consuming
Top down conceit
From cradle to courthouse
Ambitious frog leaps fall prey
To slithering whispers
And the accountability of thieves-
Mercurial hoods tying paysheets
To what the body believes
An aching nuisance scraping the face of disguise
Men on wheels shouting fingers 
Placing boulders on the shoulders of mercy

The mind untangles during knots of sleep
Rigged dice beckon with the bounty of ecstasy 
To stretch this awakening across the goal line
But the body is weak at every gate
There is no clarity but surrender

Get a Premium Membership
Turn off ads, get more exposure for your poetry, and get more features with a Premium Membership.
Book: Diverse Voices: The Poetry of Human Rights and the Pursuit of Peace