The Tasks Set Before Her
8x10 mixed media, soft pastel
The list of things she needs to do
is long
and heavy
and she is tired
from the dreams that wake her
she is tired
from the thoughts that keep her awake
she is tired of the way the world has changed and wants so much to have the old world back
if only she could find the answers to the questions that distract her
the answers that she once held in her hands
she must have put them down somewhere a while ago
too distracted to notice she didn't have them anymore
she can not find them now
now that she needs them
perhaps they are buried under the pile of laundry that stares at her from the corner of the room
she’ll get to doing that laundry one day
it’s on her list
to find the answers
it’s on her list
it’s on her ever growing list of things she needs to do
“Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”
― Anna Akhmatova