‘The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things’ – Ernest Dimnet
But I didn’t break today.
I wanted to break around 11am.
But I needed to finish that report.
I thought I might break at 2pm.
But then I had a meeting.
It seemed I would break at 5pm.
But the kids needed food.
I was ready to break at 10pm.
But politics, austerity, gender discrimination, racism, obesity, nationalism, buttons, egos, the legal system, Lords – oh lordy lords, the 52%, PIPs, the casual decline of social standards, refugees, big hands, experts, small hands, democracy, drowning, poems – so many poems, stereotypes, capitalism, identity, gender identity, national identity, my identity, and did I leave the back door unlocked.
Tomorrow I will find the time to break.
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Stephen Daniels is the editor of Amaryllis Poetry
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