You’ll Never Have Enough

Another year — another rat race And putting in these long hours Starts the etching of wrinkles on my face

The stress of never slowing down Is like a painter with a paintbrush Painting dark circles around my eyes Adding extra details to the bags beneath These beautiful blue irises That seem more and more like gray With every difficult passing day

Yet there’s no one to blame (Except for myself) I have enough already to be content But something is driving me to more The material greed of society Has burdened my head with insecurity Telling me — I’ll never have enough And my mind keeps thinking — You’ll never be enough either It makes no sense when I really stop And give it decent thought But I rarely have the time to think decently Because I’m working — Too long and too hard to drum up anything Let alone an epiphanic thought That reminds me to simply “SLOW DOWN”