#Poetrychallenge – Poet’s choice of words

This week Colleen has left the choice of words up to us. I am feeling rather exhausted having worked long days for the past week and a half. I have, as usual, expressed how I am feeling in these poems:

Mental devastation

Complete exhaustion

Can be quite devastating

To your well being

Dealing with overwork

When work overwhelms

And rest is hard to achieve

Try to snatch small breaks

It is better than nothing

And prevents total collapse

Chewed up string

Sometimes I feel like

a long piece of chewed up string

that cannot ever

become straight and true again

the bends and kinks will remain

You can join in Colleen’s challenge here: https://colleenchesebro.com/2019/03/05/colleens-2019-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-126-poets-choice-of-words/