Wednesday, May 09, 2007

my version of productivity at work

A poem. Written yesterday in under 10 minutes whilst trying to re-organise my team's common drive on our server.

Where do I go when I'm not here?
My head is like a balloon, I fear:
Drifting aloft on the vaguest of thoughts,
Slipping the weights of 'shoulds' and 'oughts'
Nothing gets done; not a thing is achieved,
And when the day ends, I hightail it, relieved,
But the list of to-dos is a myriad miles
And I find myself drowning 'midst papers and files
Fighting 'gainst waves of guilt, fear and stress;
When I try to do more, I end up doing less.
Where do I go when my mind wanders free?
Nobody knows - alas, not even me.

3 comments:

Sandi Purl said...

calgon...take her awaaaay!!

where were u last night? missed u :-(

Betharoopie said...

Very nice. Some wonderful creative juices flow when the "real world" tries to stifle them.

Lorena said...

:sob:

That speaks to me.

Is that good? Or bad...?