It’s days like these
when the pressures
of life begin
pressing
down on me,
closing in on me.
Although I lack
the very motivation
to continue
pressing on,
open up
and let peace in.
I need stillness
to overtake me;
I need the world
to slow its pace,
like the snowflakes
cascading at my doorstop.
The only thing
keeping me going
is the will to carry on
and it’s fading fast,
melting snow with
the heat of stress.