A.K.A. Too Tired to Write

Ode to Fatigue

I sit here a'dreary
After a day's busy fury.
And here you are with me.

My long-suffering companion,
Always there without abandon,
How I long to see your life through.

But t'is nothing but spite
That brings you by my side.
And here I am left a-wondering:

What would life be, without you here with me;

My little ones playing in tandem?


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