Futility - Jan 16 2022

 

Futility

Jan 16 2022

Pushing on a rope.

Nailing jelly to the wall.

The parachute

you started knitting

halfway to the ground.

If this is how futility feels

I know it well.

Futility

as cause, consequence

emotion.

But I am dogged, stoic

and carry on regardless.

Because this is the human dilemma  —

surely, things will get better . . .

     . . . and what choice do I have?

Meanwhile

it's nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel.

Two more cliches

with a kernel of truth.

So I pull instead of push

and feel something move.