Frustration #5: Loose Ends

It's been on the project board for years,

your grand idea, your baby, inspiration,

or a stubborn item that is merely

victim of too long a to-do list, it's there

and there again, you push it down because

you can't quite cross it off just yet, the

unresolved, unreconciled relationships

awaiting someone to speak up and you have

tried enough, though, haven't you? Can't

it be her turn this time, or his? Decisions

that are difficult, a contract null and void

or maybe we could file a tax extension, pay

the government or pay attention to the details, 

details, retail, wholesale, whole lotta shakin' 

going on. Where is the follow-through, the finish, 

all the loose ends neatly tied into a bow although

right now, it's more a noose around your

neck, limp, flaccid so it doesn't chafe but it's

not going anywhere, it has to be completed,

has to, and you cannot do it all alone and

yet cooperation isn't at a premium, nobody

else seems all that int'rested in typing

in "The End" and moving on to other

things that if you haven't learned the lessons

this time for, there's more just like it in

your future, one more circle 'round the mountain,

(and some circles need to be unbroken, others

not so much), just take the test another day, or

figure out that if you want it done, you'd better 

be prepared to do it by yourself, 'cause you're the only 

one who gets that it's your life, important,

passion suffocating, building up,still building

up with no release in sight while others idly

sip their tea or take vacations, it's no

skin off their teeth, any way, they'll pencil something

in next month and maybe yes and maybe no

or what about next year? It clearly doesn't matter.

(c) Ellen Gillette, 2015