SURVIVAL

 

                          SURVIVAL

 

Pitch black night challenges appear

stress irrational, though crystal clear,

eyes wide, restless, doze, mind alert,

dawn mentally exhausted, brains inert.

 

Blankets shelter, minutes, hours fly

internet, mobile, TV, mute on standby,

vividly traumatic, pressure unable to suppress

resilience dissipates, depressed, rapidly regress.

 

Enemy of survival:

Eventually one drowns treading water,

backwards not an option, self - inflicted loser,

so fervently forge forward, a decisive winner.

 

Alan Pinkus                                                                    alpinkuspoetry.blogspot.com