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It's Just Overwhelming
Right now I've got that overwhelmed feeling
So much to deal with, no means of dealing
Groceries to buy, rooms to clean, texts to send
Relationships to start and ones to end
Music needing listens, dog needing walks
Unexplored galaxies filled with unturned rocks
Questions unanswered and homework not done
Jackets not lost and games not won
Boys unkissed and drinks still full
Doors not pushed even though it says pull
Voids of silence not startled by thank you and please
Sunsets without watches and mountains without sees
A life needing certainty and a world needing travel
Skinned knees needing band-aids and cement needing gravel
Love not yet fallen and trees not yet climbed
College applications unfinished and poems unrhymed
A plant still a seed and a cookie still dough
There are tests unstudied and money I owe
I have restoration to do after massive brainstorming
And not-happy-endings in need of transforming
I've had so much happen without a reaction
And all of this thought without any action
My to-do lists have piled high into the airs
So that, from down below, they look like stairs
With nowhere to go, I decided to climb
I ran up those stairs taking two at a time
When I reached the top, I was sweaty and panting
But the view from up there was quite enchanting
All that was under my feet suddenly seemed small
And I wasn't overwhelmed but in control of it all
I turned and descending, read the lists as I ran
And when I reached the ground, I took a breath and began
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