At the End of the Day
Our lives can be a busy balance of many tasks. Work, play, time with loved ones – all of these make their claim. Even maintaining our blog-space can stretch us into the beyond. This little post is to encourage the busy and the beset among us. It is inspired by a clip from Victor Hugo’s delightful Les Miserables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHwyCp6ah6U .
At the End of the Day
The day is done
We slump down
Upon the chair
Our shoulders sagging so.
The weight of those tense-taut muscles
Presses on the seat.
Adrenalin uncoils in us
Ever gradually
As we come to rest.
And
It meets
A sigh rising
From deep within the chasm
Of our heart.
At the end of the day.
What has today brought?
Not nearly half of what
We said we’d do
Has come to light.
Yet
The day was full.
And
We are spent.
At the end of the day.
Now
glancing over the screen
our “reader” catalogues
the latest posts.
Oh, to linger upon them!
But
My tired eyes
Strain at the screen.
And
that comment
So kind!
How I wish
I could engender
A kind, profound utterance
To thank them.
A smile,
Could offer a smile.
At the end of the day.
Then
Inside our heart of hearts
A glow kindles within
As a compassion
Caresses us.
A feeble and fumbling
Affinity
stammers into our sentences
as we share
with so many others
that knowledge
that we all fail
to accomplish
But we have done something!
We cherish a celebration
of that step
of something
At the end of the day.
Simon C.J. Falk 3 May 2014
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